A paid opportunity for young creatives in Gloucester to join The Multi-Story Orchestra and Strike A Light for an exciting new music project.
🔥 Fee: £120 per day (freelance role)
🔥 Deadline for applications: Monday 12 October 2026
THE GIST
The Multi-Story Orchestra (MSO), in partnership with Strike A Light, are looking for 8 Gloucester-based music artists aged 18–25 to join an exciting new creative project.
You’ll work alongside other young creatives and the MSO team across a series of sessions to experiment, write songs and create new music together, leading to the development of a new co-production.
You’ll start with an induction day (November 2026) getting to know more about the project, experimenting with music and sharing ideas. Followed by a week (February 2027) working alongside the other young creatives and members of the MSO team to create songs.
You’ll have the opportunity to bring your passions and ideas to the creative process, working with professional musicians to bring your ideas to life. MSO projects have previously tackled a wide range of topics including gang culture, social media, identity and climate change. The music can cross styles including soul, R&B, classical and choral.
The work created through these sessions will be developed alongside professional artists into a new co-produced piece, which will be performed in Gloucester in summer 2027.
We’re looking for people who are:
- Aged 18 – 25 and based in Gloucester
- Interested in music – whether you write, sing, rap or play an instrument
- Eligible to work in the UK
THE DETAILS
PROJECT DATES & FEEs
- Wednesday 4 November 2026: Induction day in Gloucester (10am – 5pm)
- Monday 22 February – Thursday 25 February 2027: R&D week for collaborative songwriting sessions
- More dates for 2027 to be added, including performance in June
- Fee: £120 per day (freelance role)
HOW TO APPLY
To Apply, please send the below to recruitment@strikealight.org.uk
- A paragraph or video (maximum 2 minutes) answering:
- Who you are and what your music practice is (e.g singing, rap, musical instrument etc)?
- Why you are interested in this project and which element of it excites you the most?
- Who is a musician/artist/song that inspires you and why?
- A headshot photo
- A link to any footage* of your music practice (Social media, dropbox, website, YouTube etc)
*Please ensure that footage is no longer than 3 minutes in length (or let us know the timestamps of which section we should listen to). If sending footage of ensemble work, please highlight to us who you are.
Please send through all documents via email to recruitment@strikealight.org.uk with the subject line MSO Young Creatives Application
Please notify us of any access needs for applying and we will endeavour to accommodate these to the best of our ability.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
- Deadline for applications: Monday 12 October 2026, 11.59pm
- We will notify every applicant of the outcome of their application by Thursday 15 October 2026
- Unfortunately we are unable to provide detailed feedback for unsuccessful applications
If you have any questions please contact us on recruitment@strikealight.org.uk
This project is led by The Multi-Story Orchestra in partnership with Strike A Light. Funded by Arts Council England.
Thanks to The Music Works in Gloucester for their support.
