Post the role.Fill the service.Hear them blind.
Organist, director of music, section leaders, choral scholars, cantor, choir singers — post the role free, reach musicians across every tradition, then run a fair, blind voice or organ audition: the panel scores the recording, not the name.
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Musician accounts free forever No auto-renewal — we remind you Automatic donation acknowledgments
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This is the actual product
Your music program, on one screen.
Every screenshot below is a real Cadenza church workspace — choirs, the dep list, and the organ fund. Not a mockup.
The dep list
The organist you called last Advent, on file.
Keep the deps and section singers your program actually uses — with instruments and tags — and post a sub call when Sunday needs covering.
- Organists, section leads, and brass on one roster
- Tags you define: evensong, continuo, weddings
- Post a call, review responses, contact respondents
The music fund
The organ appeal, with a thermometer.
Run the restoration appeal and the choral scholars fund as real campaigns — goal, raised, donor count — with automatic donation acknowledgments.
- Campaign pages with goals and progress
- Automatic donation acknowledgments
- Donor counts your treasurer can read at a glance
Blind auditions
The panel scores the voice, not the name.
When you audition section leaders or an organist, each juror gets a tablet view that only ever shows an audition number — identity is stripped server-side.
- Blind by audition number, enforced at the API
- Your own criteria and weights
- A fairness export for the music committee
Run your music program on this.
Post a role free today; add the blind audition and the giving rails when you need them.
The alternative
Another season on a phone tree is a gamble.
Every service you cover from memory, and every audition you defend from memory, is a bet the parish doesn't know it's making.
The Thursday-night scramble
The organist calls in sick before Sunday and the dep list lives in one person’s head. With a roster on file, the next call is a lookup, not a prayer.
The vestry’s question
“Was the audition fair to every singer?” With paper ballots, the answer is memory. With blind scoring by number, it’s a record.
The appeal in a drawer
Organ-fund pledges tracked on paper lose momentum between meetings. A live campaign page keeps the thermometer — and the donors — in sight.
Advent and Easter don't move. The programs that glide through them set up in ordinary time.
Post a need — freePost the role you’re actually hiring for.
Pick a role, write it in a minute (or reply “draft for me”), and it’s live free.
Organist / Organist-Choirmaster
Prepared repertoire + hymn-playing audition
Post this roleAssistant / Associate Organist
Shares the console with the DoM
Post this roleDirector of Music
Your flagship music-staff search
Post this roleOrganist-Choirmaster
The combined console-and-choir hire
Post this roleChoir Director / Choirmaster
Builds and leads the choir
Post this roleCantor
Per-Mass or salaried liturgical cantor
Post this roleWorship Leader / Worship Pastor
Contemporary services — best as a job post
Post this roleAccompanist / Staff Pianist
Rehearsal + service playing
Post this roleSection Leaders & Staff Singers
Paid S/A/T/B — per-service or stipend
Post this roleChoral Scholars
Academic-year paid choir pipeline
Post this rolePaid Choir Singers
Per-service or stipended staff singers
Post this roleChoir Singers / Members
Build or refill your choir sections
Post this roleHandbell Choir Director
Leads the handbell / handchime ensemble
Post this roleChildren’s Choir Director
Nurtures your youngest singers
Post this roleYouth Choir Director
Leads teen & young-adult singers
Post this roleMusic Administrator
The operations behind the program
Post this roleSub / Pinch-hit Organist
One-off cover for a service
Post this roleWedding / Funeral Musician
A single service — organist or singer
Post this roleHiring 4–12 paid singers this program year? Run them all through one blind audition season →
Find church-music jobs by role
A dedicated page for each role — with the open positions and how to post one.
Open across the field
9 open in Worship & Sacred Music
Sacred Music Jobs — King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge
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St Paul's Cathedral
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ViewSacred Music Jobs — The Memorial Church, Harvard University
The Memorial Church, Harvard University
Cambridge 🇺🇸
ViewSacred Music Jobs — Duke University Chapel
Duke University Chapel
Durham 🇺🇸
ViewSacred Music Jobs — Brick Presbyterian Church
Brick Presbyterian Church
New York 🇺🇸
ViewSacred Music Jobs — Fourth Presbyterian Church
Fourth Presbyterian Church
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ViewYou run the audition — not just post the link.
Every guild board stops at a listing. Cadenza runs the section-leader and organist audition end to end.
An illustration of the Audition OS jury screen — anonymous candidate numbers, scored on the work, not the name.
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Candidates submit a prescreen
A prepared solo + sight-singing for singers; repertoire, hymn-playing, and sight-reading for organists — collected in one place.
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The panel scores it — blind
Anonymous candidate numbers on the juror screen, no name, committee scores from anywhere, with an auditable draw and fairness trail.
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See the ranked result, send the offer
The recording decides it. Advance candidates, release decisions, and make the offer from the same screen.
“AGO, ACDA, NPM and ChurchStaffing post a listing and stop. Cadenza runs the blind audition.”
One season, one church: $299 founding ($499 standing), good for 60 days — no $4,800/yr commitment.
See Audition OSThe singers and organists are already here — and free.
Cadenza is free for musicians, so sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, tenors, baritones, basses, organists, and accompanists keep profiles with their voice part, instrument, location, and availability. Posting your need is free and it surfaces to the ones who fit; searching the musician directory yourself comes with a paid church plan, because that roster is every musician's privacy surface as well as ours.
Built for the way churches actually hire.
Tuned to the program year, the scholar cycle, and the festal surges.
Program-year cliff (Sept–June)
Most section-leader and organist searches open Jan–May for a fall start. Post early and reach candidates before the rush.
Post a role — freeChoral-scholar cycle
Academic-year scholars plus mid-year replacements churn every spring. Run one blind audition season for the whole pool.
Run a blind audition · $299Advent & Holy Week surges
Messiah, Lessons & Carols, and Easter need extra singers and players fast. Post a sub call and fill it.
Post a sub call — freeOrganist chair still open? Promote your search.
A Director of Music or organist opening can sit for months in a thin local market. When you want more of the right musicians to see it, you can promote any published role — the same self-serve add-ons any listing on Cadenza can buy. It’s never required: your posting stays free either way.
Feature it in worship search
Give your organist, director-of-music, or section-leader posting a ★ Featured badge and a slot in the Spotlighted rail, so more of the singers and organists already searching Cadenza land on it. It does not re-rank the search results themselves — a list someone sorted by date stays sorted by date.
Place it in the weekly digest
Reserve a sponsored slot in the next weekly newsletter emailed to opted-in musicians — a direct nudge to church-music candidates who may not be actively browsing that week. Placements are arranged through our team so every paid slot is delivered.
Post free first, then promote when you’re ready — you pick the listing and the add-on on your own listings page. One-time, no subscription, and never required to fill a role.
Your role reaches opted-in musicians the instant it publishes
Musicians who saved a matching search and chose instant alerts are emailed the moment your worship role publishes — a targeted email to the people already looking for exactly that role, not a mass blast. Post it and the match goes out on its own.
For every tradition — tuned to how you hire.
Anglican / Episcopal
Highest audition fitHighest audition fit — organist-choirmaster, paid section leaders, choral scholars (the AAM cathedral model).
Catholic
High volume — directors of music, organists, and cantor pools across parishes and dioceses.
Lutheran & Presbyterian
Directors, organists, and paid quartets — the ALCM and PAM traditions.
Evangelical / Contemporary
Best as a job postWorship pastor and contract band — best as a job post; audition the band when you want to.
The guild boards post. Cadenza posts and runs the audition.
AGO, ACDA, NPM & ChurchStaffing are great at posting. Cadenza adds the in-platform pipeline and the blind audition.
From sign-up to your first audition, in minutes.
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Post your need — free
Organist, director, section leaders, choir singers. Write it yourself, or reply “draft for me”.
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Collect & prescreen
Applications, references, and prescreen recordings land in one place — no more email threads and Dropbox links.
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Audition blind & decide
Score the recording on the juror screen, advance candidates, and send the offer.
What it costs a church
Your first posting is free. Additional postings use job credits, and you only pay more when you run a blind audition or add the full hiring pipeline — a fixed one-year term, no auto-renewal.
Church Essentials and Church Pro are buyable self-serve — a fixed one-year term you renew yourself; nothing auto-renews.
Claimed profile + your first posting free; additional roles $249 each.
One-off cover for a single service — posted via the subs board.
One season's blind audition, good for 60 days (standing $499).
Unlimited postings year-round, locked for life (Audition OS via Church Pro or the Day Pass).
The full pipeline: directory, roster, applications, committee tools, analytics.
7% + $0.99 per order — recital tickets, gifts, and neutral donor acknowledgments. Verified eligible issuers can use jurisdiction-specific tax wording.
Unlimited worship posts + sub calls, verified profile, campaign tools, reduced 5% + $0.99 ticketing.
Buy nowEverything in Essentials + blind Audition OS, concert & patron CRM, digital programs.
Buy nowA diocese, cathedral, or multi-parish search? Contact us →
Start free. Pay only when it pays off.
No setup fee, no contract, no auto-renewal — every plan is a fixed one-year term you actively choose to renew.
Free
$0 forever
Claimed profile plus your first posting free; additional postings use listing credits.
Post a need — freeAudition Pass
$299 / season · founding
One season's blind audition — applications, prescreen, scoring, the recorded draw — no subscription. Standing $499.
Run an auditionFounding
$990 / yr · locked for life
Unlimited postings, analytics, communications, verified profile, and the reduced ticketing rate at the lowest standing price.
See plansHiring OS Pro
$4,800 / yr
The full pipeline: searchable directory, roster, applications, committee tools, and analytics.
See plansRun a whole audition season for $299 — a fraction of the audition + patron-CRM stack you’d otherwise license.
Also: self-serve job post $249 · lower-priced listing lanes are temporarily held for typed-credit safety · ticketing & donations $0 setup, 7% + $0.99 per order · a bigger org or a whole diocese? Enterprise from $18,000.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it really free to post?
- Your first one is. A claimed church profile and your first worship role posting are free — no card required. Additional postings use job credits ($249 each). Church Essentials adds unlimited worship postings, a verified profile, reduced ticketing rates, and the music-fund tools. The blind Audition OS — in-platform applications, prescreening and jury scoring — is on Church Pro and above, or on a one-time $299 Audition Day Pass for a single search.
- How is this different from the AGO, ACDA, or NPM board?
- Those boards post a listing and stop there. Cadenza posts the role AND runs the audition: in-platform applications, reference tracking, prescreen recordings, and a blind voice/organ audition with an auditable fairness trail — all the way to the offer.
- Can we run a fair, blind voice audition?
- Yes — this is the wedge. Audition OS puts each candidate’s recording on your committee’s screen with no name and an anonymous number, so section-leader and organist auditions are decided on the singing or playing, with a defensible record.
- We hire paid section leaders every year — what’s the cheapest way to audition them?
- The Audition Day Pass runs a whole season’s blind audition for $299 (founding rate; $499 standing), good for 60 days — no $4,800/yr commitment. Post your first role free, then add the pass when you’re ready to audition — once it’s active, open the listing and switch on in-platform applications to start collecting them.
- We’re a diocese with many parishes — can we run them together?
- Each church runs its own Hiring OS today. On Pro you can put a committee on a search — reviewers score candidates blind on their own panel — so the decision is a team decision. Multi-admin account roles are not part of the church plans; if you need several parishes coordinated in one place, talk to us and we set that up hands-on.
- How do recital tickets and donations work?
- Ticketing and donations are $0 to set up — just 7% + $0.99 per order. Donors get automatic donation acknowledgments, and you keep gift history and lifetime giving in the patron CRM. Official tax language is available only after Cadenza verifies complete jurisdiction-specific issuer evidence; deductibility depends on local law, and Cadenza does not provide tax advice.
- Do we have to sign a contract?
- No. Every paid plan is a fixed one-year term billed once, with renewal reminders before it ends so you decide whether to continue. Nothing auto-renews — when the term is up you choose whether to buy another year, and access continues through the period you already paid for.
Post your need today. Audition fairly this season.
List your organist, director, section-leader, or choir-singer opening free — then run the blind audition when you’re ready. No contract, no card to start.