This is our monthly digest of Seattle-area arts admin job openings, auditions, calls for scores, competitions, grant deadlines, new programs, performer-composer happy hours, and more. This newsletter has been on hiatus since March 2020. We are exploring bringing it back. Have you missed it? …

Here are the latest updates to our website as of March 15, 2022. Big thanks to our volunteer software developers and testers for this last month of work. New features Confirmation/error messaging during event submission When you’re creating, editing, and submitting an event, you’ll now see a green message across the top of the screen confirming that…

A new filter for free concerts, repertoire improvements, and more. — Here are the latest updates to our website as of February 6, 2022. Big thanks to our volunteer software developers and testers for this last month of work. New features You can now filter for free concerts on the search results page: When deleting a performance, you’ll see a message asking for…

We recently welcomed four new board members to our Board of Directors. As a nonprofit, we rely on our volunteer board to serve as ambassadors for LMP’s work and guide LMP strategically into the future. Our board members are kickass visionaries and enthusiastic advocates of early music, classical, and contemporary…

Deadline for pre-launch submissions: November 20, 2021 — This is an announcement we’ve been looking forward to for a while. You may know that we’ve been working with a group of extraordinary volunteer software engineers, led by Shaya Lyon, Nick Pozoulakis, and Rob Gibson, to bring a new website to fruition. The site will launch — at last…

A new chapter & welcoming Megan Ihnen as director — Dear LMP family, After a whirlwind 7 years leading the Live Music Project as founder and executive director, I’m excited to share that I’m moving into a board/volunteer role and looking forward to the next chapter as Megan Ihnen, LMP’s communications/development lead, takes the helm as ED starting July 1.

Dear LMP Family, Do you hear that? Faintly, faintly, I’m starting to hear that A440 tuning pitch… If you go to a concert performed by an orchestra, you will first hear the oboe play the standard tuning note — an A — right before the performance starts. Then each group…

Using purpose to go back to the drawing board during Covid. — By Shaya Lyon I never clean behind the couch. On Thanksgiving, I felt like cleaning behind the couch. I dug out a pile of dusty rolled-up papers and found the initial statement of purpose for the Live Music Project, which we’d written on a huge piece of paper and taped…

Innovative arts non-profit seeks a full-stack engineer to lead technical development. — Innovative arts non-profit the Live Music Project seeks a full-stack engineer to lead technical development. We are a team of 10 volunteer developers working with a seasoned product manager who is embedded in Seattle’s classical music community. We meet twice per month (currently on Google Meet), supplemented by asynchronous communication…