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Academic ConnectLecturer in Oboe
Role type: Part Time (0.5 FTE, with potential adjustment); Continuing
Faculty: Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Department/ School: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Salary: Level B: $124,656 - $148,023 p.a. plus 17% super
Faculty: Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Department/ School: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Salary: Level B: $124,656 - $148,023 p.a. plus 17% super
- Outstanding performer-educator shaping tomorrow's professional musicians while driving cutting-edge music research.
- Apply now to join a world-class conservatorium and elevate your career in oboe performance and education.
- Investing in you - benefits package including salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, discounted services, and professional development opportunities.
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Your next career opportunity
As a Lecturer in Oboe at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, you'll have the opportunity to inspire and train future professional musicians whilst maintaining your own distinguished performance career. You'll contribute significantly to teaching, research, and leadership within the woodwind area, shaping curriculum and fostering innovation in music education. This part-time role offers you the chance to make a lasting impact on the next generation of oboists whilst advancing your own artistic practice and research.
As a Lecturer in Oboe at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, you'll have the opportunity to inspire and train future professional musicians whilst maintaining your own distinguished performance career. You'll contribute significantly to teaching, research, and leadership within the woodwind area, shaping curriculum and fostering innovation in music education. This part-time role offers you the chance to make a lasting impact on the next generation of oboists whilst advancing your own artistic practice and research.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Deliver Exceptional Music Education: Provide individual lessons, performance classes, and ensemble coaching across all levels of study, whilst coordinating subjects and recruiting high-quality students.
- Advance Performance-Based Research: Contribute to the field through concerts, recordings, and publications, whilst supervising honours and postgraduate research students.
- Engage with the Music Community: Participate in Conservatorium events, foster industry partnerships, and contribute to professional organisations in woodwind performance.
- Provide Leadership and Service: Contribute to program planning, curriculum development, and committee work within the Conservatorium and wider University.
You may be a great fit if:
You are an outstanding oboist with an excellent performance career and demonstrated tertiary teaching experience, possessing the ability to inspire students and contribute innovatively to music education and research.
You are an outstanding oboist with an excellent performance career and demonstrated tertiary teaching experience, possessing the ability to inspire students and contribute innovatively to music education and research.
You will also:
- Have a distinguished professional performance profile with significant achievements in solo, chamber, and orchestral contexts.
- Possess tertiary teaching experience with demonstrated success in training future professional performers.
- Demonstrate a record of significant creative achievements, including performances and recordings.
- Have experience in curriculum development and the ability to attract high-quality students to various music programs.
- Show a commitment to practice-led research and the ability to supervise graduate researchers.
- Possess strong organisational and collaborative skills to contribute to excellence in all aspects of the Conservatorium's programs.
What we offer you!
We offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits to support your success and sense of fulfillment, including:
We offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits to support your success and sense of fulfillment, including:
- Supportive flexible work arrangements underpinned by our commitment to inclusion and well-being
- Progressive, considerate leave provisions to empower your work-life balance
- Salary packaging and access to a range of discounted services including Bupa health insurance
- Health and well-being services including a leading Employee Assistance Program
Your new team - Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is Australia's most vibrant and prestigious music institution. Our thriving community of students, teachers, academics and researchers reflects the many dimensions of musical creativity and experience. Together, we work to sustain the vitality of music in society and to shape the future of music in Australia and across the globe. The Conservatorium provides training in a comprehensive range of musical disciplines, including Music Performance, Composition, Jazz and Improvisation, Interactive Composition, Early Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music Therapy, Music Psychology and Performance Science and New Music.Our internationally recognised teachers are committed to challenging and inspiring our students to create their own unique paths in music. To complement the knowledge and performance expertise on staff at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, our students also benefit from visiting performers and academics from around the world.
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is Australia's most vibrant and prestigious music institution. Our thriving community of students, teachers, academics and researchers reflects the many dimensions of musical creativity and experience. Together, we work to sustain the vitality of music in society and to shape the future of music in Australia and across the globe. The Conservatorium provides training in a comprehensive range of musical disciplines, including Music Performance, Composition, Jazz and Improvisation, Interactive Composition, Early Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music Therapy, Music Psychology and Performance Science and New Music.Our internationally recognised teachers are committed to challenging and inspiring our students to create their own unique paths in music. To complement the knowledge and performance expertise on staff at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, our students also benefit from visiting performers and academics from around the world.
Join Us and unlock your career potential!
If this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents:
2. Demonstrated high-level expertise in a range of woodwind repertoires and national styles of concert music from the 18th through 21st centuries. Expertise in core repertoires is required, and expertise in performing and commissioning new music in a variety of contemporary idioms is desirable.
3. Dedication to the representation of diversity in concert programming, and evidence of creative and considered approaches to repertoire selection, concert curation, and public communication through artistic practice.
4. Substantial experience and evidence of excellence in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate woodwind students.
5. Demonstrated capacity to recruit outstanding undergraduate and postgraduate woodwind students.
6. Evidence of ability to teach into other performance-based subjects within the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, and to interact with complementary fields in the Conservatorium.
7. Evidence of ability to develop a distinctive program of performance-based creative research, and deliver a variety of high-quality creative research outputs.
Learn more about the application process, including tips and FAQs.
Applications close: 19 February 2026 at 11:55 PM; Melbourne time zone.
Position Description: JR-006702 Lecturer in Oboe_PD.docx
If this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents:
- Resume
- Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience
- The responses against the following seven Selection Criteria
2. Demonstrated high-level expertise in a range of woodwind repertoires and national styles of concert music from the 18th through 21st centuries. Expertise in core repertoires is required, and expertise in performing and commissioning new music in a variety of contemporary idioms is desirable.
3. Dedication to the representation of diversity in concert programming, and evidence of creative and considered approaches to repertoire selection, concert curation, and public communication through artistic practice.
4. Substantial experience and evidence of excellence in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate woodwind students.
5. Demonstrated capacity to recruit outstanding undergraduate and postgraduate woodwind students.
6. Evidence of ability to teach into other performance-based subjects within the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, and to interact with complementary fields in the Conservatorium.
7. Evidence of ability to develop a distinctive program of performance-based creative research, and deliver a variety of high-quality creative research outputs.
Learn more about the application process, including tips and FAQs.
Applications close: 19 February 2026 at 11:55 PM; Melbourne time zone.
Position Description: JR-006702 Lecturer in Oboe_PD.docx
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