Join the CentreStage Team – Pianist/Musician for CentreStage Activities
CentreStage is looking for skilled and enthusiastic Pianists/Accompanists/Musicians to join our creative team and support our vibrant activities programme.
We are seeking someone who enjoys working with people of all ages, who can bring energy, flexibility, and musicality to rehearsals and classes. Our classes are fun, welcoming, and confidence-building, and we’re looking for a pianist/musician who enjoys making music in a lively and supportive environment.
The role
As a CentreStage pianist/musician, you will be required to:
- Accompany across a range of Creative Activities
- Support rehearsals for projects, classes and showcases
- Work collaboratively with the Creative Team.
- Adapt to a range of musical styles, including musical theatre, pop, contemporary, and classical repertoire
- Accompany from sheet music, lead sheets and/or chord charts, with the confidence to improvise and support participation where appropriate
- Help create a positive, encouraging, and inspiring learning environment
We are looking for someone who:
- Is an accomplished pianist/musician with good accompanying and vocal skills
- Is comfortable reading sheet music, and/or playing confidently from lead sheets/chord charts
- Has experience accompanying singers, choirs, musical theatre, or dance classes (desirable but not essential)
- Is reliable, well-prepared, and confident working in a fast-paced rehearsal environment
- Communicates well and enjoys being part of a collaborative creative team
- Has experience working with young people or community arts organisations (an advantage)
What we offer
- A welcoming and supportive creative environment
- The opportunity to work within the CentreStage community
- Competitive sessional rates (dependent on experience)
- The chance to be part of exciting CentreStage productions and community arts projects
Location: CentreStage, Kilmarnock
Contract: Sessional / Freelance (with potential for ongoing work)
Hours: Daytimes/ Evenings/Weekends
To apply
Please send a short CV or musical résumé and a brief note telling us about your accompanying experience and availability to [email protected]
Come and help us inspire the next generation of performers through the power of community.
CentreStage – Where creativity, community, and fun come together.
Join the CentreStage Team
Pianists & Musicians
Great musicianship matters. But so does what you do with it.
CentreStage is looking for talented and adaptable pianists and musicians to join our creative team in Kilmarnock.
Every week, thousands of people of different ages, backgrounds, experiences and abilities come through our doors. Some come to perform. Some come to learn. Some come to make friends, rediscover confidence or try something they never imagined they could do.
Music is one of the ways we bring people together — and we're looking for musicians who understand the difference the right accompaniment, encouragement and instinct can make.
The role
Working alongside our Creative Team, you could:
- accompany choirs, singing groups, musical theatre companies and other creative activities
- support rehearsals, projects, performances and showcases
- work with children, young people and adults of all ages and abilities
- move comfortably between musical theatre, pop, contemporary, classical and other repertoire
- work from sheet music, lead sheets and chord charts, and improvise when appropriate
- respond instinctively to the people in the room — knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to simply help someone feel confident enough to have a go
- contribute to the welcoming, inclusive and joyful environment that makes CentreStage distinctive.
We're looking for people who:
- are accomplished, confident musicians, with strong accompanying skills
- can read music and/or play confidently from lead sheets and chord charts
- are flexible and able to respond quickly in a busy creative environment
- enjoy collaborating with other musicians, tutors and creative practitioners
- are reliable, prepared and generous team players
- genuinely enjoy working with people.
Experience accompanying singers, choirs, musical theatre or dance is welcome, as is experience within community arts or working with children and young people — but we're also interested in musicians from different backgrounds who feel an affinity with the way we work.
Above all, we're looking for kind, curious people who happen to be great musicians.
What you'll find at CentreStage
You'll become part of a creative community where music and the arts aren't simply about producing great performances. They're about bringing people together, breaking down barriers, developing strengths and unlocking potential.
We offer:
- a warm, supportive and highly creative working environment
- varied sessional opportunities across our activities and productions
- competitive sessional rates, dependent on experience
- opportunities for ongoing work
- the chance to use your musicianship to make a genuine difference in people's lives.
Location: CentreStage, Kilmarnock
Contract: Sessional / Freelance, with potential for ongoing work
Hours: Opportunities across daytime, evenings and weekends
Interested?
Please send a short CV or musical résumé, together with a brief note telling us a little about you, your musical experience and your availability, to [email protected].
You don't need to have followed a conventional route into music to talk to us. If you're a great musician who loves people and thinks you might belong here, we'd like to hear from you.
CentreStage
Hope. Inclusion. Aspiration. Joy.
Work Location: In person
