So you want my arts job: MusicNSW CEO

Joe Muller, the Managing Director for NSW's peak body for contemporary music, always finds time to catch some live tunes outside his busy job.
A bearded man with curly dark hair. He is standing against a blue backdrop with the words so you want my arts job on it.

Joe Muller is the Managing Director of MusicNSW, the state’s peak body for contemporary music. Additionally, he currently serves as a Board Member of Green Music Australia and sits on the NSW Government’s Sound NSW Advisory Board and 24-Hour Economy Advisory Council. His curatorial experience includes roles as Music Curator for Vivid Sydney and developing music programs for Queensland Music Trails (QMF), CHANGES festival (Melbourne), Taste of Tasmania (now known as Taste of Summer), Newtown Festival, and iconic Sydney venues such as The Basement and The Lansdowne.

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Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian. She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025). Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy