This paper examines the features of the activities of a teacher of additional education related to the preparation of students for a concert performance and necessity of creating favorable conditions to the successful performance of students. The most common shortcomings in preparing students for performing in front of audience are identified, also the main stages of the musical teaching process are considered. In the course of analyzing the activities of a music teacher, it was revealed that in the structure of the organization of the musical teaching process when working with gifted students, it is important that the teacher has pedagogical giftedness, which includes a number of pedagogical abilities. On the basis of the studied materials and the experience of foreign countries, the author proposes, on the basis of a bachelor's degree, to enter a course of major disciplines such as psychology of musical and pedagogical activity, psychological and pedagogical workshop and the art of teaching stage performance, and for acting teachers on the basis of children's music schools, to introduce an advanced training course of psychological and pedagogical support of students in the conditions of concert activities for teachers of additional education.