Asst Professor/Assoc Professor Professor Of Piano

Position Information

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The University of North Texas ( UNT) College of Music is the largest public university music program and one of the most respected comprehensive music schools in the United States. It 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 composition, conducting, ethnomusicology, music education, music entrepreneurship, music history, music theory and performance. The college presents more than 1,100 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 https://music.unt.edu/.
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.

Teaching: Recruit, retain, and teach an outstanding enrollment of undergraduate and graduate classical piano students. Supervise graduate classical piano students, including doctoral documents.
Research/creative activities: Maintain an established national/international profile as a performing artist (as soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist)

Service: Participate fully in academic and professional activities, including service assignments, across the campus and the profession. Other duties as assigned including, but not limited to, coaching chamber music and teaching piano literature classes.

Earned doctorate in classical piano performance. Excellence as a teacher/recruiter/mentor and active, artist-level performer. Success in teaching at the college/university level. Success in chamber music. Artist-level performer of solo and chamber repertoire. High standards of professional ethics and collegiality.
The successful candidate will be expected to relocate to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

Experience and enthusiasm for commissioning/premiering/recording new works for piano, as well as for works outside the European canon. Proven record of attracting, developing, and retaining outstanding piano students at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Job Duties

Posting Detail Information

Please upload the following documents with application:
1) A cover letter
2) C urriculum vitae
3) Contact information for five references
4) Portfolio - Please upload a single PDF listing of links to videos featuring 2 representative teaching samples (i.e. live or virtual masterclasses and/or private lessons); AND include a listing of links to websites or videos featuring a minimum 5 representative recordings including solo and chamber music, 3 of which must be from live performances;
5) Other Document - Please provide a statement describing recruitment and/or teaching strategies.
Additional materials, including letters of recommendation and academic transcripts, may be requested later. Travel arrangements will be coordinated with applicants selected to travel to Denton, Texas for an in-person interview in accordance with university policies and procedures.

Review of materials will begin immediately and will continue until position is closed.

Duties to begin in August 2024.