Role: New Music & Repertoire Co-ordinator (Maternity Cover)
Employer: C.F. Peters Ltd & Co. KG/Peters Edition Ltd
Location: Flexible home/office working (offices in London, Leipzig, New York)
Application Deadline: 27/02/2023
Start: 01/04/2023
Contract: Temporary (maternity cover, approx. 12 month), full-time
Salary: Package dependent on experience.

Edition Peters Group is looking for a New Music & Repertoire Co-ordinator (Maternity Cover) to join the New Music and Promotion team of this renowned, international music publishing house.

• An opportunity to work closely with some of the most important living composers of today, in a cultural and historic company of global standing.
• Group-wide role (offices in London, Leipzig and New York).
• Supportive working environment: small collaborative team across three offices.
• Option for flexible working (home/office). In-person meetings in one of our offices from time to time will be required.

About Edition Peters

The Edition Peters Group is one of the world’s greatest independent music publishers, with offices in Leipzig, London and New York. Its unrivalled catalogue represents a vast range of rights, from historical editions to scholarly Urtext and cutting-edge concert and operatic repertoire. Since its foundation in 1800, Edition Peters has focused on building a dynamic catalogue of music by living composers (starting with the first edition of Beethoven’s First Symphony). It now represents some of the most in-demand international composers and editors working today.

Your Position

In your role as New Music and Repertoire Co-ordinator (Maternity Cover) you will provide crucial support to the Director of New Music and Repertoire in coordinating the work of Promotion Team across the Edition Peters Group: ensuring a consistent, efficient approach to the many tasks required in managing the large and diverse rights catalogue of Edition Peters Group. Working with the Promotion, Communications, Business Affairs, Editorial and Rental teams, you will lead on the co-ordination of performance material, the ingestion of new products through the release note process by generating data and creating content, and supporting the management of composers and their promotion.

Your Tasks

• Supporting the New Music & Repertoire promotion and rental team
• Co-ordinating the supply of performance material for newly commissioned works and other works to commissioner, co-commissioners and performers including digital delivery in liaison with Editorial/Rental/Sales
• Managing the information on the Comms Planner for New Music and Repertoire Premieres and Significant performances, events and significant dates
• Leading on the Integration of Works data including new commissioned work through release note process
• Issues arising from email inbox
• Copy writing and translating (release notes, social media posts) – Editing programme notes for release copy in German and English
• Preparation and management of monthly New Music and Repertoire Promotion meetings and weekly New Music Editorial meetings
• Ensuring biographies, photographs and worklists for composers are kept up to date
• Perusals and programming suggestions of new works to contacts following promotion meetings
• Reacting to incoming queries from composers, performers and artistic administrators including info about works, repertoire ideas, biography and image requests etc
• Attending concerts and events as an ambassador for Peters and building up contacts
• Sourcing recordings for promotional purposes and maintain sound files
• Using InDesign to create brochures
• Troubleshooting
• Award Submission

Your Profile

• Demonstrable organisational and communication skills
• A degree in music and good knowledge of and enthusiasm for contemporary classical music
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office essential; Adobe InDesign and Acrobat desirable)
• Consistent high level of customer care and responsiveness.
• Good Time Management, data management and able to prioritise workload.
• Self-motivation and ability to work independently.
• Copy writing skills
• Fluency in English and German

Please send a CV and covering letter in English to sarah-maria.mirbach@editionpeters.com by our closing date of Friday, February 17th, 2023.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. No agencies please. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants.