Chicago · verified 8 July 2026

Mathew Klein bass-baritone

Every live lead for a program leader, teacher, and performer re-entering in Chicago — music now optional, no Illinois license required unless flagged. Marked like a score: play the fortissimo leads first.

Dynamics = urgency: ff act this week · mf act this month · p speculative / long shot · tacet closed until a posted date. Checkboxes persist in this browser.

The season ahead

Audition and application windows that are closed now but reopen on known dates. Put these on the calendar.

Now — July 2026

Tonight/tomorrow: CPL Library Clerk closes July 8, 11:59 PM
ELIS SUB (+ paraprofessional) license application + NAU transcript order
Shedd, Adler, Apple applications · Loyola staff roles
Speakeasy talent pool · LifeHikes · GK Training outreach
CPS substitute window opens mid-to-late July
Private-school stack (July 8 sweep): Rogers Park Montessori music application · Carney Sandoe registration + Thaxton email · UCLS subs email · Parker sub application
UCLS Extended Day part-time applications open mid-July
Music track: MOB + COT emails · Lyric Teaching Artist (training Aug 3) · Merit late apps · MIC · Musicologie

Aug – Sept 2026

CAC docent 2027 class applications open late Aug
Fingerprint clearance (4–6 wks) → first sub days by September
COT 26/27 chorus call posts (League board — check weekly)
After School Matters fall postings · People's Music School starts Sept

Oct – Dec 2026

iRelaunch virtual return-to-work conference (Oct)
JPMorgan ReEntry window opens (~Nov)
Grant Park Chorus 2027 audition info posts (Dec)
Chicago a cappella 2027 audition dates post (Dec)

January 2027

CSO Chorus applications open (27/28 season)
Lyric Opera Chorus 27/28 auditions announced (~mid-Jan)
Lincoln Park Zoo paid fellowships open (~Jan 12)

Dead ends — checked, nothing there. Don't redo these.

Sherwood (Columbia College) — school closed/absorbed; defunct.
ChiArts — became a CPS district school July 2026; PEL license required.
Ravinia (voice) — ADP board verified: Sistema Ravinia is strings-only right now; MDP teaching-artist posting 404. Watch the board.
Old Town School (voice) — only Piano Lab ($37/hr) and Spanish-required Hola Wiggleworms.
People's Music School (voice/theory) — all other openings instrumental.
Uniting Voices Chicago — "No current roles are open" (intro email is on the board).
Chicago Park District — hiring API queried: no music instructor req; title exists, recheck occasionally.
ILMEA job bank — CPS/district roles, license required. Useless pre-licensure.
Urban Gateways roster — application cycle closed (contact card on the board).
Music Together — no Chicago center hiring; requires their paid training anyway.
St. Edmund's Episcopal — 2025 posting, stale/404.
Glenview Community Church — 2023 posting, long dead.
St. Paul & the Redeemer 26/27 — staff-singer openings were tenor/alto only; bass filled (sub-list card on the board).
ChoralNet paid-auditions board — stale (top listing 2018).
Audiobook narration (ACX) — worst entry year on record: narrator royalty share cut to 10% (May 2026), AI narrates indie nonfiction for under $100, Findaway's narrator marketplace is gone. Portfolio piece only, expect $0.
WBEZ / Chicago Public Media — zero audio roles (finance + Sun-Times editorial only). Monthly watch at most.
Corporate choir facilitation — no Chicago employer exists; a DIY offering to add to a coaching practice at best.
Accenture / McDonald's / United returnships — tech-only or nonexistent.
Field Museum — 7 openings, all research/facilities; no public-facing roles. Watch monthly.
GEMS World Academy Chicago — school closed.
STS license + CPS cadre tiers — STS is strictly worse than the SUB license ($125 vs $143/day, 5-day cap); cadre/preferred-school sub tiers aren't currently offered.
Catholic-org admin (Legatus chapter admin, parish operations, Darst Center ED) — real openings exist (see beyond-music-admin-report.md) but omitted per the July 2026 church de-prioritization.
GCE Lab School — closed permanently June 2023; domain now redirects to dreamsforkids.org. Remove from all lists.
Lycée Français de Chicago — careers page verified empty July 8, 2026; English-track faculty face a higher diploma bar anyway. Low-priority recheck.
Chicago Friends School — no job board on the employment page (July 8); a stale snippet mentions occasional subs — email info@chicagofriendsschool.org to ask, nothing to apply to.
North Shore Country Day — "Current Opportunities" rendered empty July 8 (possibly a JS widget); Metra-only Winnetka commute regardless.
Beacon Academy (Evanston) — NOT checked: beaconacademyil.org 403s to automation (note: beaconacademy.org is an unrelated Boston school). Browser-check if curious.
ISACS career center — login-walled, and its public page redirects job seekers to the NAIS board anyway. NAIS covers it.
topschooljobs.org — inventory is public districts (license-required, wrong geography). Dropped from the scan rotation.

Rebuilt locally 7 July 2026 from four research sweeps (community schools · church & sacred · professional ensembles · teaching-adjacent), expanded the same week with four beyond-music sweeps (substitute track · program & admin · civic/cultural · voice-as-asset) and the church de-prioritization. Sits alongside the Illinois licensure plan; full research detail in the eight *-report.md files beside this one. Private-school sweep added 8 July 2026 (private-schools-report.md). Blocked-from-automation pages worth a manual browser pass: Archdiocese boards, School of Rock, Guitar Center, JCC Chicago, Art Institute, Northwestern/UChicago portals, Indeed/Glassdoor, Latin's Paycom board, Bennett Day's Paylocity board, UChicago Workday, lmais.org/careers, beaconacademyil.org.