Assistant Professor of Horn

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Assistant Professor of Horn## Position Type:

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LSUAM CMDA - School of Music (James L Byo ))##

Work Location:

0319 Music School Building## Pay Grade:

Academic##

Job Description:

The Louisiana State University School of Music invites applications for a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor of French horn, with appointment to begin in Fall 2026. We seek artist-performers and teachers with demonstrated ability to attract a large studio of students who value learning in an engaged, collaborative, and vibrant school culture.

Job Responsibilities:

* Teach applied horn in all degree programs, teach brass-specific courses, coach chamber music, advise graduate students; recruit promising student musicians
* Build and maintain a national and international profile as performer and teacher; participate with faculty in chamber music, and contribute broadly to the artistic and educational milieu of a major School of Music at a Research I, flagship university
* Provide service and participate in faculty governance

Minimum Qualifications:

* Education Level: A Doctorate in horn performance
* Degree Substitute: A Doctorate in horn performance or equivalent professional experience
* Specific

Experience:

Distinguished record as an active performer; demonstrated excellence in and commitment to teaching students with diverse skill sets; and commitment to contributing broadly to the culture of a major School of Music.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Specific

Experience:

An additional area of expertise that extends one’s influence; dispositions that serve relationship-building, creative problem-solving, and innovative opportunities.

LSU’s College of Music and Dramatic Arts is a performing arts community that prepares performers, composers, teachers, and scholars for productive lives after college. In a setting that prioritizes engagement, acceptance, personalization, collaboration, and inspiration, we foster passion for the arts, the creation of new works, and connection with community, heightening our collective ability to communicate with expressive power and purpose.

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College is a national flagship institution with world-class intellectual and creative resources. Located in Baton Rouge, a dynamic state capital situated on the Mississippi River, the University represents the best of Louisiana's vibrant and evocative culture. Baton Rouge is home to both LSU and Southern University and numerous businesses and industrial facilities, with a metropolitan area population of over 800,000.
The LSU School of Music offers a comprehensive program to nearly 500 music majors. It has 50 full-time faculty, 10 professional staff, and 75 graduate teaching assistants. In addition to the Golden Band from Tigerland and the Turner-Fischer Center for Opera, the School of Music features strong band, orchestra, jazz, vocal, keyboard, and chamber music programs, as well as a robust research component in music education, composition, musicology, and music theory.

The School sponsors over 300 recitals, concerts, operas, masterclasses, and lectures each academic year. Degrees offered include the Ph.D. (with concentrations in composition, experimental music and digital media, music education, musicology, and music theory), DMA (concentrations in music performance, collaborative piano, and choral, orchestral, and wind conducting,), MM, BM, BME, and BA (Liberal Arts). LSU also has an innovative and collaborative media arts community;
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