Assistant Professor of Piano

Title:

Assistant Professor of Piano

Employee Classification:
Asst Professor

Campus:
University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Provost

Sub Division-Department: UNT-College of Music

Department: UNT-Keyboard Studies-134340

Job Location:

Denton

Salary:
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with the candidate's qualifications, experience, and discipline, in accordance with university guidelines and available funding.

FTE: 1.00

Retirement Eligibility: ORP Eligible

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Department Summary

The University of North Texas (UNT) College of Music is America's largest public-university music program and one of its most respected. UNT offers fully accredited degrees from the bachelor to doctoral levels and is home to the world's first jazz studies degree program. Faculty include internationally acclaimed artists and scholars in commercial music, composition, conducting, ethnomusicology, music business, music education, music history, music theory, and performance.

The college presents more than 1,000 concerts and recitals annually. UNT music alumni can be found around the globe in impressive, award-winning careers across a wide range of music professions. For more information about the UNT College of Music, please see (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

UNT has a highly diverse campus with a wide range of languages spoken in addition to English. We welcome candidates who have experience with HSI/MSIs and/or who speak Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin and other variations), Arabic, Tagalog, Farsi, French, or/and Yoruba.

Position Overview

The Division of Keyboard Studies invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Piano. We seek an outstanding artist-teacher to teach undergraduate and graduate applied piano, piano literature, maintain an active performing career, and contribute to the artistic and scholarly mission of the College of Music. The successful candidate will demonstrate a record of excellence in teaching and performance, a commitment to recruiting and mentoring a diverse body of piano students, and the potential to achieve national or international recognition.

Teaching:
Recruit, retain, and teach an outstanding enrollment of undergraduate and graduate piano students (performance and pedagogy majors). Supervise graduate-degree requirements, including graduate committees/recitals, and doctoral projects/documents. Teach applied piano and graduate seminars in Piano Literature. Teach additional piano-related courses depending on expertise and departmental needs. Other duties as assigned.

Research/Creative Activity:
Establish/maintain a national/international profile as a performing artist (soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, commissioner of new works for piano, etc.).

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