Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Jazz Studies

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Department Summary

The University of North Texas (UNT) College of Music is the largest public-university music program in the United States, and one of its most respected colleges of music. 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 education, music entrepreneurship, 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.

Position Overview

Teaching:

Recruit, retain, and teach an outstanding enrollment of undergraduate and graduate jazz students. Supervise graduate-degree requirements, including graduate committees and doctoral projects/documents. The primary instructional foci of this position will include music business, jazz improvisation, and jazz musicianship. Applied instruction and other teaching assignments will align with the successful candidate’s qualifications and expertise. Other duties as assigned including, but not limited to coaching jazz, combo coaching, jazz pedagogy, literature, etc.

Service:

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

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree in music; artist-level qualifications in saxophone, trombone, or trumpet; successful teaching experience in music business, jazz improvisation, and jazz musicianship; success in, and enthusiasm for, recruiting/retaining a robust cohort of undergraduate and graduate students. The successful candidate is professional, collegial, and respectful in their interactions with all colleagues and students. A terminal degree in the assigned discipline or related field is required for teaching graduate level courses. Additional consideration may be given for equivalent applied experience in accordance with faculty credentialing guidelines. Meets the criteria outlined in UNT Policy 06.005.

Preferred Qualifications

Earned doctorate in music. The position is open to instrumentalists, with preference for saxophone, trombone, or trumpet. However, candidates on other instruments will be considered. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise and employ innovative approaches to teaching music business, jazz improvisation, and jazz theory/aural skills at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as excellence in applied instruction. The successful candidate is encouraged to remain professionally active as a jazz performer and educator.

The College of Music supports a growing degree program and a minor in Commercial Music (tracks include General, Music Business, Music for Media, and Production). Stylistic fluency across a broad range of jazz traditions, contemporary practices, and commercial styles, along with a history of engaging students with diverse musical interests, is highly preferred and encouraged.

Special Instructions

Applicants must submit a minimum of two professional references as part of their application. If needed, additional references can be added after the application has been submitted. Applicants must submit names and contact information for three professional references as part of their application. If needed, names of additional references can be added after the application has been submitted. Please upload the following documents with the application:

• A cover letter speaking to the required and preferred qualifications of the position
• A list of at least two links to contrasting video excerpts, each being no more than 20 minutes, demonstrating the applicant’s teaching in the areas of improvisation, theory, aural skills, other musicianship, and/or applied lessons.
• A list of at least four links (video preferred, audio accepted) to representative unedited recordings/performances on the candidate’s instrument, with a preference for at least two live excerpts.

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