Assistant Professor of Percussion

University of North Texas System • Denton, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

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 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 percussion students. Supervise graduate-degree requirements, including graduate committees and doctoral projects/documents. Other duties as assigned including, but not limited to coaching percussion ensembles, percussion techniques, percussion pedagogy and literature classes.

Research/creative activities: Establish/maintain a national/international profile as a performing artist (soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, etc.).

Service: Participate fully in academic and professional activities, including service assignments, across the campus and the profession.

Requirements

• Earned doctoral degree in music with minimum five years professional performance experience required.
• Demonstrated success teaching at the college/university level with a proven record of attracting, developing, and retaining outstanding students.
• Artist-level performer of solo and chamber repertoire.

Nice To Haves

• An established record of professional percussion performance experience.
• Professional experience as a soloist, chamber musician, and/or orchestral musician.
• Performance expertise including non-Western styles and percussion instruments.
• Experience and enthusiasm for commissioning/premiering/recording new works for percussion.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, retain, and teach an outstanding enrollment of undergraduate and graduate percussion students.
• Supervise graduate-degree requirements, including graduate committees and doctoral projects/documents.
• Coach percussion ensembles, percussion techniques, percussion pedagogy and literature classes.
• Establish/maintain a national/international profile as a performing artist (soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, etc.).
• Participate fully in academic and professional activities, including service assignments, across the campus and the profession.

Benefits

• Competitive and commensurate salary based on qualifications, experience, and discipline, in accordance with university guidelines and available funding.
• ORP Eligible retirement plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree