| *** Big Band |
| *** College/*** Community College/*** College/private studio/*** Festival Orchestra/*** Philharmonic |
| *** County Schools, Freelance musician |
| *** Ensemble, Broadway shows, recordings, *** College of Performing Arts |
| *** Episcopal School |
| *** High School (band director) |
| *** Jazz Band |
| *** London West End |
| *** Middle School (Teacher) |
| *** Musician |
| *** Quartet, Goodspeed Musicals, Playhouse on Park, etc. |
| *** Symphony Orchestra (Assistant Principal Bassoon/ Contrabassoon and much of the Saxophone work), teach at the University of ***, lots of studio recording sessions. |
| *** Symphony Orchestra, Bassoon |
| *** University graduate teaching assistant |
| *** Videogame Symphony |
| *** Winds, Ballet *** Orchestra |
| ***Winds, ***, *** |
| 2nd Alto Sax, US Navy Band *** Jazz Ensemble |
| 6-12 band director |
| A school big band |
| ABRSM |
| Air Force, formerly with a regional band, but now assigned a non-music job |
| Alabama State University |
| Band Director – High School |
| Band instrument repair |
| Bar gigs w/ a combo |
| Before the pandemic I was regularly doing musical theatre work 3/4s of the year and also was doing a fair bit of big band playing as well. The big band and various offshoots of it play pre 1940s swing music and some smaller “Dixie” stuff so there’s a lot for me to do on clarinet. I also teach privately at a school system and a music store and was leading an after school ensemble and doing sectional work with the other bands at the school system. Those ended up being fairly evenly split, and then I would pick up various odd work at studio sessions or local bar gigs |
| Big band jazz |
| Broadway |
| Broadway and Lincoln Center |
| Broadway pits |
| Certified bad*** (jk, picking up jobs when I can/doing musicals) |
| Church and Various community bands |
| Church Music Director |
| Church of ***, Music Director and keyboardist |
| Coastal Carolina University |
| Community band/ musicals |
| Community bands |
| Community Bands – 4 of them. |
| community orchestra |
| Community theater |
| Community wind ensemble |
| Cruise ship musician (saxes, flute, piccolo, clarinet) |
| Currently all virtual – mostly with the Royal Canadian Naval Reserves at ***. |
| Currently RSO/VVGO/various guest player roles at Chinese orchestras in Singapore |
| Currently teaching orchestra. |
| DMA student at the University of *** |
| Elementary Music Teacher |
| Everywhere š |
| Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre |
| Free-lance musician |
| Freelance |
| Freelance |
| Freelance musician around the west end and London |
| Freelance teaching and performing |
| Freelance woodwind specialist, director of local volunteer big band (Ensemble Swing Time), Singer |
| Freelancer / university adjunct |
| Going to the *** College of Music and Drama for Oboe Performance (with a touch of Woodwind doubling) this september |
| High School |
| High School Teacher |
| Home based teacher |
| I am a high school student at *** High School |
| I attend Brandon University |
| I play the flute family for the *** Symphony Orchestra |
| I primarily teach private students. |
| I work at *** full-time during the days, and sub regularly on Broadway on nights and weekends (under normal circumstances) |
| I’m in high school so this doesn’t apply |
| Instrument repair |
| Instrument Repair at *** |
| Jazz Big Band |
| Just freelance |
| Local high school and regional theater |
| Local theatre groups |
| Mainly in undergrad jazz band and concert band |
| Mars Hill University |
| Mid-*** Symphony, *** Jazz Band |
| Middle school music teacher, play in local symphony and a collegiate wind orchestra |
| Military Band |
| Military musician and private teacher |
| Missouri State University |
| Music bachelors student |
| Music education undergrad |
| Music teacher/Teaching artist |
| Musical instrument repair/orchestral oboe. |
| Musical theater, church |
| My band, The *** |
| My online business as a content creator and educator |
| National or international tours. |
| No main gig during The pandemic. |
| No main gig. |
| None, teach at *** College, produce concerts at ***, run the *** Saxophone Quartet, |
| North Carolina State University |
| Nowadays it’s mostly University ensembles in Cambridge |
| Performing |
| Performing |
| pit orchestra |
| playing in musical orchestras/ bands |
| Playing in musical theater pits |
| Playing on Broadway |
| Playing: Civic Theater and the *** Jazz Orchestra. Clarinet teacher for local school district. |
| Private instructor, various big bands, west coast style combo and various pits when they come up |
| private lessons at *** Music |
| Private lessons teaching |
| Private Studio |
| Private Studio |
| Private teacher & reed maker out of my home |
| Private teaching studio |
| Private woodwind teacher & freelance musician |
| Prof. of Music, The University of *** |
| Professional and community theatre pits. Too many to list. |
| Professional orchestra librarian |
| Professor at *** University |
| Professor at NDSU |
| Put work |
| Recent college graduate, premed, member of *** (funk group), and jazz musician/woodwind instrumentalist |
| Regional big band & GB |
| Regional Broadway caliber theater productions and local hire for national tours. |
| Regional theater, private lessons |
| Retired |
| Rockland County Concert Band |
| Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (studying) |
| Sam Houston state |
| Saxophone with *** |
| School band |
| Schriener University |
| Self-employed |
| senior in college, about to student teach |
| simpson college |
| Six Flags |
| Small School Band Director |
| Software Engineer |
| solo jazz performer |
| Southwest *** Community College |
| Stockton CA |
| Student |
| Student |
| Student right now |
| Substitute teacher specializing in music |
| Teach at ***. Play gigs w/my jazz combo. |
| Teacher (Elementary) |
| Teaching and free lancing. |
| Teaching and instrument repair |
| Teaching at a school(still a uni student) |
| Teaching Bassoon Lessons |
| Teaching middle school band |
| teaching private lessons |
| Teaching the reed studio at *** University. |
| Teaching: *** Music (lesson studio and music store) | Playing: *** (amusement park) Dixieland Band |
| The *** Quartet (baritone chair), freelancer/soloist, Orchestra of *** |
| Theater |
| Theater Musician |
| Theatre |
| There are several |
| Touring Musician (Broadway shows) |
| UNC Charlotte |
| Univ. of ***, *** Technical College |
| University adjunct professor, Broadway touring shows (local hire) and local theater company. |
| University as a student |
| University New Music Ensemble |
| University of *** *** Society (the musical theatre society) |
| University of Nevada, Reno |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts |
| University of Oregon |
| University of Texas at San Antonio/private lessons (self employed) |
| University Professor an conductor |
| University student with some private teaching and freelancing |
| US Army Musician |
| US Navy Pacific Fleet Band |
| Varies |
| VVGO, RSO, UFB – virtual ensembles. |
| WAAPA – Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts |
| Weddings |
| Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts |
| Will be attending UNT |
| Youngstown State University |
, Oxford University Press, 2001:
I always feel weird commenting on posts that are a decade old, as there’s definitely a chance this has been said elsewhere and I’ve missed it…!
Flautist is definitely a British-English term – ever since I started playing flute in 2003 my teachers referred to a flute player as a flautist. All British music professionals – save for a couple (who, incidentally, spent a lot of time in America) – that I have been in contact will us flautist. I always find these small linguistic differences quite interesting!
Note we say it where ‘flau-‘ is said as ‘flaw’, rhyming with ‘paw’ – I’ve heard the American pronunciation of ‘flautist’ having ‘flau-‘ rhyme with ‘ow’.