There are far more options for what you can do with a music degree than you probably realize., so here’s a list of some of the careers for those with a music degree.
**Note that some of these careers require graduate education (eg., teaching on the college level) or additional training beyond what you’ll find in an undergraduate program. Internships are especially important for working in any of the music industry/technology/recording fields. Entrepreneurial skills, the ability to use the latest relevant technology, and some basic business skills like marketing, are also useful in every area of music.**
• Accompanist (public and private schools, music schools and performing arts camps; religious centers and schools; dance rehearsals and performances; other venues)
• Acoustics
• Adjudicator
• Arranger
• Artist management
• Arts administrator/arts management (includes box office, concert series, programming house manager)
• Audio production, editing
• Band director (K-12, college, military, sports)
• Clinician
• Collaborative pianist
• Community music school director
• Composer
• Conductor (orchestras: K-12, college, community, youth, domestic/international)
• Copyist, transcriber
• Copyright consultant
• Cruise ship entertainer
• Digital aggregator
• Educator – K-12, college, university, conservatory, religious organizations, private studio
• Electronic production and design (including audio engineering; mastering; mixing; music directing; producing; program directing;programming; recording engineer; studio manager; MIDI technician)
• Entrepreneur
• Entertainment lawyer; music business lawyer
• Event production, management, planning, technology
• Film scoring (Composing, editing, supervising, arranging/adapting, conducting, orchestrating, synthesis specialist, theme specialist)
• Fundraiser, Grant writer
• Historian
• Instrument builder, designer
• Instrument company or music store (owner, manager, sales)
• Lecturer (schools, media, cruise ships, community)
• Librarian
• Lyricist
• Marketing
• Master classes
• Media development
• Merchandise management
• Merchant
• Military bands
• Music agent
• Music business
• Music critic or reviewer
• Music curator
• Music for game development
• Music industry
• Music licensing
• Music online and print magazine writing, editing, publishing
• Music production
• Music publishing
• Music school administrator
• Music supervisor
• Music therapist
• Music web producer
• Musical instrument repairs and tuning
• Musical theatre
• Musicologist
• Orchestrator
• Performer – Vocal and instrumental soloist, session musician, orchestra/band/group member, background vocalist or instrumentalist, performing artist, show band. Venues may include business meetings, conferences, cruise ships, weddings, hotels, restaurants, clubs, religious events
• Personnel Manager (orchestras, arts organizations, shows, events)
• Piano tuner, mover
• Pit orchestra musician
• Production
• Promoter
• Public relations agent or coordinator
• Radio – programming, research, management
• Recording ((producer, engineer)
• Recruiter for talent agencies, universities, etc.
• Religious music – sacred music
• Royalty analyst, royalty accountant
• Session musician
• Songwriter (including composer, lyricist, producer; jingle writing for television, radio and internet; freelance work; librettist)
• Sound technician (sound engineer)
• Sound Design
• Summer camp music director
• Talent representation (booking, management)
• Talent Scout
• Tours/road work (road manager, sound technician, tour coordinator, tour publicist)
….Here’s a start, but I’m pretty sure there are more!
source: http://majoringinmusic.com/what-can-you-do-with-a-music-degree/
