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Professionals · code 2652

Musicians, singers and composers

Musicians, singers and composers write, arrange, conduct and perform musical compositions. Tasks include - (a) creating melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures to express ideas and emotions in musical form; (b) translating ideas and concepts into standard musical signs and symbols for reproduction and performance; (c) adapting or arranging music for particular instrumental or vocal groups, instruments or occasions; (d) conducting instrumental or vocal groups; (e) selecting music for performances and assigning instrumental parts to musicians; (f) playing one or more musical instruments as a soloist or as a member of an orchestra or a musical group; (g) singing as a soloist or as a member of a vocal group or other band; (h) practising and rehearsing to maintain a high standard of performance. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Band leader - Composer - Instrumentalist - Music conductor - Night club musician - Night club singer - Orchestrator - Singer - Street musician - Street singer

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 223 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • music director
  • répétiteur
  • composer
  • musician

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

72
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 28 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 28 = 72

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

25.9
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

28.3
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 35.7 · hand skill 35.7 · cramped spaces 13.6 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 25.9 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 43.3, while the average is 28. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 43.3

    Translating ideas and concepts into standard musical signs and symbols for reproduction and performance

    Low
  2. 35

    Adapting or arranging music for particular instrumental or vocal groups, instruments or occasions

    Low
  3. 35

    Selecting music for performances and assigning instrumental parts to musicians

    Low
  4. 26.5

    Conducting instrumental or vocal groups

    Low
  5. 25.9

    Practising and rehearsing to maintain a high standard of performance.

    Low
  6. 24

    Singing as soloists or members of vocal groups or other bands

    Very Low
  7. 22

    Creating melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures to express ideas and emotions in musical form

    Very Low
  8. 12.6

    Playing one or more musical instruments as a soloist or as a member of an orchestra or a musical group

    Very Low

8 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
60
AI does it for you
23.5

Helping wins by 36.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2111, 2112

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.2. This one is above that.