The Creative Practitioner: A Guide to Working in the Arts
Paul Hose and Jonathan Curtis
 
The Creative Practitioner is a comprehensive best practice guide, reference book, and professional manual for those looking to train or work in the creative industries. It is aimed at those who want to professionalise and move into a career in the arts, as well as those who are looking to accredit themselves by attaining professional qualifications.
 
The nature of the creative industries
Academic rigour
Education and teaching within the arts
Performance and Subject Knowledge
Going into Business
Best practice and Safeguarding
Qualifications and Vocational Training
Building a Portfolio Career
 
This book is aimed at anybody looking to professionalise their artform. It is perfect for both students on vocational pathways, as well as established practitioners looking to enter the industry professionally. It is for anybody studying or practising a creative discipline:
 
Musicians and Bands
Designers
Illustrators
Photographers and Videographers
Dancers
Actors
Dance and Theatre Groups
Students
Independent Artists
 
Paul Hose is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the London College of Music, a Licentiate of both Trinity College London (for Teaching) and RSL (for Performance), and the CEO of MLC Group, providing arts education to schools and private students. He has worked as a professional musician and educator for over thirty years, and works as an examiner and assessor for diploma candidates in music.
 
Jonathan Curtis has been a professional musician for over ten years, and runs a private music teaching practice and independent publishing company. To date, he has written and published ten books in music education and instrumental instruction, six studio albums across the jazz and fusion genres, an array of snare drum and percussion compositions, and completed several Arts Council England-funded projects about composition, performance, and music pedagogy.