Employment

Musikalliansen Application
Musikalliansen is planning to make new recruitments in autumn 2010/spring 2011.

Who can apply to Musikalliansen?
You need to be a practising freelance musician to apply to Musikalliansen. By practising we mean instrumentalists, singers, musical artists and conductors. The musical work that you do must be covered by some form of public cultural funding, which means that you must have worked as a practiser at institutions (opera or theatre), County Music or another regional or local organizer that receives public cultural funding, or that you have personally received funding in the form of grants or scholarships from, for example, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee or the Swedish Arts Council.

More detailed information on application criteria will be provided closer to the time of the next recruitment session.

What does employment by Musikalliansen involve?
As an employee of Musikalliansen you will continue working as normal. When you get a job you take leave of absence from Musikalliansen and when you are between jobs then you will be employed by Musikalliansen. Whilst you are employed by Musikalliansen you can practise, rehearse, market yourself and attend training programmes and retain your income. Your employment also gives you extra security in the form of pension contributions, disability insurance cover and holidays.
Upon commencement of employment at Musikallians you will be given a time account based on the time you have worked over the past eight years. When you work as a musician the time account is counted up and when you are employed by Musikalliansen your time account is counted down. Your employment at Musikalliansen has no time limit but is instead based on how much you work as a musician.

Who is given employment – The Alliance Model/Alliansmodellen
There are currently three alliances within the artistic areas music, theatre and dance. What these three areas have in common is that they employ freelancers who are professionally active within enterprises that receive public funding. Employees are selected based on how long they have been practising rather than quality or demand. The alliances work actively with training programmes and mediation in order to increase the employees’ chances of being given more work - the less they are employed by the alliances, the more funds there are available to employ more freelancers.

Musikaliansen’s reference group makes selections from applicants that meet the criteria. Factors such as equality, variation in expressions and geographical dispersion are also taken into consideration. Musikalliansen’s board makes the final decision on which applicants to employ.