So you want my arts job: Conductor

If you are intuitive, passionate, generous and able to understand a piece of music as a whole, perhaps conducting is the right career for you?
Composite: Spanish conductor Conductor Lucía Marín

Lucía Marín made her debut in Spain with the best professional orchestras in the country: Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Sinfónica de Radiotelevisión Española, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquesta del Principado de Asturias, Orquesta De Euskadi, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Filarmónica de Málaga, Oviedo Filarmonía, Joven Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas, Joven Orquesta de Canarias, Orquesta Joven de Andalucía, Orquesta Ciudad de  Granada, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla León, among others.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts