This talk discusses the network mechanisms that support musicians in their activity. More specifically, it explores the nature of the collaborative networks in which musicians are embedded, and looks for the structural configurations that are most conducive to individual creativity. Data come from the websites of 253 music teachers in the Italian region of Trentino, and were collected as part of a broader project on local music schools, led by Silvia Sacchetti at the University of Trento. They provide the basis to test five main hypotheses, derived from various strands of literature, correlating musical production to the overall volume of collaborative ties in which music teachers are involved, to the balance between local and extra-local connections, to the musicians’ position in local musical networks, and to the relational structures prevailing in the schools to which teachers are associated. Findings suggest productivity and artistic vitality to be highest among musicians with a balanced combination of ties to other musicians in the local music schools system, and ties to musicians with different territorial locations. These findings speak to established lines of research on the network determinants of individual productivity and creativity in various domains. They also provide the basis for a discussion of the analogies between music production and collective action, as well as of the potential for dialogue between different strands of sociological reflection.