Musician cover letter example
A musician's cover letter goes with an audition application or to a fixer and stays on one page: the post and your instrument, your playing experience with who and how often, one thing that sets you apart, and why this orchestra or ensemble. The audition does the rest.
Fictional letter from Eleanor Price, the applicant in the musician cv example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the post of sub-principal second violin advertised on your website. I am a freelance violinist in Manchester, with an MMus in performance from the Royal Pennine Conservatoire, and I play as an extra first violin with the Pennine Philharmonic, about 25 concerts a season.
The post, your instrument, your training and your current playing.
Last summer I led the second violins of the Lakeside Festival Orchestra, marking bowings and rehearsing the section before the conductor's calls. I also founded the Irwell String Quartet, where I play first violin and book our 18 concerts a season.
Section leading and ensemble experience: what the post asks for.
Session work for two TV drama scores has made me a quick and accurate sight-reader, and I am used to recording to a click track. Your mix of symphonic seasons, film concerts and schools work is exactly the range I want to play.
What sets you apart, and why this orchestra.
My CV is attached, and I am available for audition and trial dates throughout November. Thank you for considering my application.
What is attached and when you are free.