The Musician Résumé Template + Writing Guide
Stand out from the crowd.
Your résumé tells the story of who you are and what you do.
We’ve advised numerous students and other young music professionals and after seeing and editing dozens of résumés over the years, we put together a list of some of our best résumé-writing tips.
This downloadable guide includes a free musician résumé template, an annotated résumé template with more helpful tips and suggestions, and a list of 35 action verbs you can use—all designed specifically for professional musicians.
In this 13-page download, you’ll find:
Three helpful resources for writing and editing your professional résumé as a musician.
A list of 35 action verbs (present and past tense)
A 2-page sample résumé for musicians
A 2-page annotated musician résumé template with more helpful writing tips and suggestions
Looking for more?
Read our blog post, A Résumé-Writing Guide for Musicians, and get our top 10 résumé tips for professional musicians.
Hi, we’re Ashley & Steve Danyew
Founders of Musician & Company, a business blog and education resource for self-employed musicians and music entrepreneurs.
We’ve seen too many classical musicians struggle to manage their music careers: saying yes to every new gig and job opportunity and being so busy, they don’t have time for anything else.
We saw an opportunity to do things differently.
So we studied everything we could about entrepreneurship and portfolio careers, researched and documented what we were learning in our businesses, and developed a practical model for building a portfolio career in music that’s diversified, profitable, and made to last.
Now, after 13 years of building our own businesses to the point of full-time self-employment work and curating our portfolio careers to include only our best and favorite work, we’re sharing what we’ve learned and giving you the tools and resources you need to build a profitable, sustainable business and music career.
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Musician Résumé Template
+ Writing Guide
Get pro tips for writing your professional résumé as a classical musician, including formatting suggestions and how to edit for clarity and consistency. Study the 2-page sample résumé and use the annotated musician résumé template to start writing your own.
