Position overview

Salary range: $120/hr

Percent time: Part-Time at 10%

Anticipated start: Fall 2025, Spring 2026, Summer 2026, and Fall 2026.

Review timeline: Appointments for Fall semester are usually reviewed in March, Spring semester in October, and Summer Session in February.

Position duration: Semester

Position description

The Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary, part-time instructors to teach a range of instruments for one-on-one and/or group instruction. Teachers of Special Programs are hired as needs arise during the fall, spring and/or summer.

The majority of Teachers Special Programs positions are part of our private instruction program. It is a directed program of study, open mostly to music majors, by audition, which includes opportunities for large and small music ensembles, and private instruction.

The components of the private instruction program include providing lessons in the following areas: Instrumental Performance, Jazz Performance, Vocal Performance, Basic Voice, Vocal Technique, Basic Piano for intending and current music majors, Beginning Piano for Non-Music Majors, Advanced Beginning Piano for Non-Music Majors.

Other courses Teachers Special Programs may serve: Chorus and/or Chamber Chorus, Early Music Performance, Songs and Song-Writing, Various Musical Practices Performance - Non-Western Instruments.

Further positions include instruction on non-Western instruments in our Ethnomusicology labs, such as Music of Japan, Music of East Asia, Music of the Caribbean, Music of Bali, etc.

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Lecturer - Teacher Special Programs (TSP) Department of Music

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