Advice, guides and stories on hiring musicians and planning live music for weddings and events.
It’s tax season and, for many musicians, that means a nightmare of trawling through piles of receipts to sort out expenses. To help you with your admin, I’ve had a look at the two most popular receipt apps that you can use to streamline your taxes. Imagine taking a photo of your receipt and…
Hiring a singer is a great way to add some style to your event. This guide covers everything you need to know about booking a singer.
Looking to hire a guitarist in 2024? This guide will provide you with the information you need to find the perfect guitarist for your event.
Our Community Manager, Jonny Venvell, met with international viola star Lawrence Power to chat about his recent appointment as the Artistic Director of the English Chamber Orchestra Charitable Trust and his exciting plans for the future of the ensemble. I meet Lawrence during a brief period of…
Cellist and cruise ship veteran Cori Lint tells you everything you need to know to have a rewarding time sailing the seas and playing music.A few summers ago, with my cello performance degree collecting dust, I waited tables and tried to determine my next move. I wasn’t interested in pursuing an…
Hiring a pianist is the perfect way to add some style to your event. This guide covers everything you need to know about booking a pianist.
Encore’s latest guest blog is from Nicole Wilson, formerly a violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra and the founder of Musical Orbit, a revolutionary online music lesson platform. I still remember the terrifying moment when I graduated from the Royal Academy of Music. After four years of…
Encore’s latest guide to navigating the non-musical aspects of the industry covers Public Liability Insurance (PLI). Insurance is one of those things that most musicians are aware of but don’t quite understand how it works or where to get it. It can seem very easy to ignore – you’re busy…
You’re trying to get from Sheffield to Luton Airport but the train ticket is £90, which is a large chunk of your fee. But there’s nothing else you can do – you need to make this flight. But what if someone could tell you how to halve the price? Read on for Paula’s top UK […]
Here at Encore, we love to hear about exciting ventures to bring music to new audiences. Today, we catch up with Philharmonia and Ruysdael Quartet violist Gijs Kramers, co-founder of the Street Orchestra of London (SOL), a pop-up orchestra founded in 2016. SOL is based on your experience with…
It’s every musician’s worst nightmare. One slip on wet leaves and suddenly your elbow is broken and you can’t work for six weeks. While a lucky few will be employed by an organisation with sick pay, most musicians are self-employed and simply don’t get paid if they can’t work. But there is help…
It’s very hard to carve a career as a musician, never more so in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive and image-driven world. The changes in the industry are unparalleled in history and therefore so are our roles as musicians. Today it’s not enough to aspire to be a virtuoso – it’s almost…
