Recommended Artists
If you’re a professional soloist or chamber ensemble, apply to be on our database and receive free promotion to our members.
For Music Professionals - Become a Recommended Artist
Our new Recommended Artists Guide is a searchable database of professional soloists and ensembles. We will promote you to our 3,800+ member groups across the UK.
How does it work?
Applications are open all year round. If your application is successful, you will be listed in the guide for two years, and can reapply to be included in consecutive years.
Your recommenation will be based on a range of specific criteria and will only be accepted to the guide if a certain standard can be endorsed.
In order to keep fees affordable for our members, there will be a maximum fee that artists can quote.
How to apply
You can apply to appear in our directory using the online application form. You can then get in touch with organisations you have recently performed for to ask for a recommendation. You can apply at any time, and if you are accepted, you will appear in the guide for two years, after which time you will need to re-apply.
Fees information
To ensure artists in the guide are affordable to our members we only consider artists who quote fees that are no higher than:
- £600 for a solo artist (no accompaniment)
- £750 for a solo artist with an accompanist (the accompanist does not need to be named)
- £850 for a duo (must be an established duo who work together on a regular basis, and both people must be named in the application)
- £1200 for a trio
- £1400 for a quartet
- A additional £300 per person for larger ensembles
Fees quoted do not include travel expenses, but must include VAT.
How applications are assessed
We require two recommendations that show you meet our criteria before you can be listed in the guide. To get recommendations we ask you to reach out to organisation you have recently performed for.
Your application will be kept open until we have received two recommendations.
Assessment criteria
The organisations you have requested to recommend you will be asked to vouch for you on the basis on your technical ability, sense of ensemble and stage presence.
How to apply
- The contact details of the person completing the form
- Description and photograph of yourself / your group
- Your location (nearest town/city and postcode)
- Your online profile (website and social media links)
- Your fees
- Booking contact details
- Most recent concerts in the UK
Unfortunately not. If you are applying as a soloist, we can only accept recommendations where you are performing as a soloist (with or without accompaniment). If you would like one of your ensembles to be featured in the guide, please make a separate application for them.
If you are applying as a soloist, then yes. If you are part of a chamber group, we can only consider performances by the group as a whole, and not separate individual performances by members of the group.
At least one performance must be for the full-size group, the others can be of varying sizes.
Yes. It is important to our members that you can demonstrate that you have undertaken educational work and so we will accept recommendations for these performances. However, we will need a recommendation from at least one recital performance.
We will send you a link to a form to pass round to any organisations that you would like to ask to recommend you.
Fees
All information that you give us at the point of applying will form your final entry in the guide, if you are accepted. Please make sure that you have considered your fees carefully before submitting the form, bearing in mind the limits mentioned above and the fact that these fees will be valid for two years. You can change your listed fees once your two-year period is up, as part of the re-application process.
Yes, if it is the member that offers the higher fee in the first place. We encourage our members to pay more if they can – however, please don’t expect this. If someone asks you to quote a fee and they say that they got your details from the Recommended Artists guide, please quote the fee that you have submitted to us.
After recommendations have been received
We will let you know once we have received two positive recommendations for you and are able to admit you to the guide.
If your application is successful, your entry will be listed in our online guide for two years. After this time, you will need to reapply. We will contact you to let you know when your entry is about to expire.
Being listed in the guide does not guarantee that you will receive any bookings. If our members do want to book you, they could contact you at any time during the two-year period.
We regularly remind our members about the existence of the guide and how it can be used. We do not promote individual artists within the guide, but rather the guide as a whole.
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