Current Vacancies
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HMDT Music seeks an experienced choreographer and dance coach to join the team of its I Can Sing! Music Theatre School for the Spring and Summer terms of the 2025-26 Season. I Can Sing! Music Theatre School is part of HMDT Music’s Saturday Programme, which enriches the lives of young people through high quality, exciting music making opportunities. I Can Sing! offers participants the opportunity to experience the joy of music theatre performance, with sessions in dance, drama/stagecraft and singing, as well as sessions that combine all these disciplines together. Repertoire includes HMDT Music’s own commissions as well as music from the Broadway tradition.
The Choreographer and Dance Coach’s role is to introduce and rehearse a range of dance styles, including Jazz, Contemporary and Music Theatre, and choreograph dance and movement for music theatre and opera excerpts and scenes for groups of students ages 7-16, leading to showings and performances. You will be expected to collaborate with HMDT Music’s Conductor/Creative Director, the I Can Sing! Stage Director and Pianists to plan the sessions for all groups. You should have experience of and enjoy working with young people, ideally in a music theatre or opera context.
The role will involve working on Saturdays between 9.00am and 2.45pm for 2 x 10 week terms between January 2026 and July 2026 and is renewable each academic year.
Fee: Approximately £1,575.00 per term (on a self-employed basis).
Start Date: 8 November 2025 (if available) or 10 January 2026
Closing Date for Applications: 30 September
Online Interviews will be held week commencing 7 October
Shortlisted candidates may be required to do an audition with students of the I Can Sing! on 11/18 October.
Fair recruitment
HMDT Music is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our clients, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. The organisation - in providing goods and/or services - is also committed against unlawful discrimination of customers or the public. We encourage applications from those who are currently under-represented in the arts industry, including D/deaf or disabled, and applicants who experience barriers due to ethnicity, gender identity and/or socio-economic background.
Please click here to read our full Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
HMDT Music, twice winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education and winner of the Excellence in Music Theatre Award is a leader in creating inspiring projects for young people, particularly those facing challenging experiences, through which it aims to enrich learning, broaden awareness of and help fight inequity and transform lives.
