Professional advice
Our in-house legal team can help you with contracts, unpaid fees, employment matters and other awkward issues connected to your working life as a musician. You can consult our experts on copyright and media-related disputes too. We provide representation in disciplinary hearings, advise on recording and employment contracts, and help with recovering debts. We can help you pursue disputes through the courts, and even defend criminal prosecutions, with the backing of your legal expenses insurance.
Don’t delay in seeking advice. Email us or call 020 7629 4413
In addition, our 24-hour legal and & tax helpline can answer your questions on all legal matters, whether personal or work-related. Call as many times as you need, any time of day or night.
Call the helpline on 01206 368994
Peace of mind – comprehensive insurance cover
If you live in the European Union, you’re protected against public liability claims relating to all aspects of your musical work – whether at home, in schools, in a venue – up to £10 million. You’re also covered for employer’s liability if you live in the UK.
Tax issues
As well as our legal and tax helpline, which provides advice on tax and national insurance problems 24 hours a day, you are automatically insured against the accountancy costs of a full HMRC tax investigation.
Call the helpline on 01206 368994
24-hour money, health and counselling services
Our 24-hour financial, health and counselling telephone helpline lets you and your family members talk through personal issues in confidence with a trained counsellor. Additionally to the helpline, you can also access online services which offer advice sheets on a wide range of topics, guidance and interactive questionnaires. For full details of this service and what it can offer you, click here.
Call the helpline on 0800 042 0136 or go to your online help area. The user name is ‘ism’ and the password is ‘member’.
If financial hardship is the problem, the ISM Members Fund can step in to support you through the crisis.
Read more about the Members Fund or call 020 7629 4413
Inside knowledge
Our advice pages and helpful features guide you through the musical profession. There’s guidance on an extensive range of topics, including noise nuisance, planning an event, redundancy, child protection, professional development and careers. We can also send you this information as a printed information sheet too. Our regular surveys of professional fees can inform your negotiations on pay.
Keep checking our home page or call 020 7629 4413 to request our advice pages by post
Raise your profile
Our online registers of private teachers, performers, composers and musicians in education receive thousands of visitors every month. Our Register of Professional Private Music Teachers is the only directory of proven professionals on the web, with a solid reputation for reliability.
To apply to join a register: E-mail us or call 020 7629 4413
Professional development
We hold regular events to help you develop your skills throughout your career. Our regular seminars and conferences encourage performers, composers and educators of all kinds to meet, share ideas and opinions, learn about the latest developments, debate current issues and hear from esteemed experts in the musical world.
Our redesigned monthly magazine, Music Journal, keeps you up to date with music news and includes advice, features, opinion and professional development opportunities.
Visit our events page or read Music Journal for details of forthcoming events.
Local networks
Our local Centres keep you in touch with musicians nearby. They hold regular professional and social events, from workshops and pupils’ concerts to lunches and nights out, to help you network with performers, composers and teachers in your area.
Visit our events page to contact your local Centre
Discounts
We have negotiated generous discounts on many products and services useful to music professionals. They include concerts, instruments, insurance schemes and sheet music.
When you need to stay in London, we provide discounted accommodation at Grange Hotels and the New Cavendish Club.
Click here for a full list of our discounts
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