Assistant Professor of Piano

Title: Assistant Professor of Piano

Employee Classification: Asst Professor

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Provost

SubDivision-Department: UNT-College of Music

Department: UNT-Keyboard Studies-134340

Job Location: Denton

Salary: Compensation is competitive and commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications, experience, and discipline, in accordance with university guidelines and available funding.

FTE: 1.00

Retirement Eligibility: ORP Eligible

About Us - Values Overview

Department Summary

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.

Position Overview

The Division of Keyboard Studies invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Piano. We seek an outstanding artist-teacher to teach undergraduate and graduate applied piano, piano literature, maintain an active performing career, and contribute to the artistic and scholarly mission of the College of Music. The successful candidate will demonstrate a record of excellence in teaching and performance, a commitment to recruiting and mentoring a diverse body of piano students, and the potential to achieve national or international recognition.

Teaching: Recruit, retain, and teach an outstanding enrollment of undergraduate and graduate piano students (performance and pedagogy majors). Supervise graduate-degree requirements, including graduate committees/recitals, and doctoral projects/documents. Teach applied piano and graduate seminars in Piano Literature. Teach additional piano-related courses depending on expertise and departmental needs. Other duties as assigned.

Research/Creative Activity: Establish/maintain a national/international profile as a performing artist (soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, commissioner of new works for piano, etc.).

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

The candidate will be expected to build and maintain positive relationships with colleagues at UNT and with the profession at-large.

Minimum Qualifications

Earned doctorate in piano performance by the time of appointment. Demonstrated successful teaching experience at the college/university level, including studio instruction and piano literature, with a clear record of attracting, developing, and retaining outstanding students. Evidence of outstanding achievement in piano performance, demonstrated through recordings, concert engagements, professional reviews, and/or publications, along with a clear capacity to sustain or build a national and international reputation as an artist-teacher. Demonstrated superior communication/organizational skills, and an ability to work collaboratively.

Employees in this job may be responsible for conducting research on, working on, or having the ability to access critical organizational infrastructure and they must be able to maintain the security and integrity of the infrastructure related to this role.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven record of successful teaching applied lessons at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Proven record of supervising graduate recitals and dissertations. Significant record of national/international solo and chamber performances, including recordings and scholarly publications. Experience and demonstrated success in recruiting and mentoring outstanding students. Experience teaching other piano-related courses.

Required License/Registration/Certifications

Physical Requirements

Communicating with others to exchange information.

Environmental Hazards

No adverse environmental conditions expected.

Work Schedule

varies based on assignment

Driving University Vehicle

No

Security Sensitive

This is a Security Sensitive Position.

Special Instructions

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:

• One-page statement on teaching philosophy and recruitment
• Links to a minimum of three recent (past three years) unedited performance recordings of solo and chamber music
• Links to sample teaching videos of advanced-level repertoire at the university level.

Please upload the listing of teaching and performance links in the media files section of the application.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Benefits

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EEO Statement

The University of North Texas System is firmly committed to equal opportunity and does not permit -- and takes actions to prevent -- discrimination, harassment (including sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking) and retaliation on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in its application, employment practices and facilities; nor permits race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or sex discrimination and harassment in its admissions processes, and educational programs and activities, facilities and employment practices. The University of North Texas System promptly investigates complaints of discrimination, harassment and related retaliation and takes remedial action when appropriate. The University of North Texas System also takes actions to prevent retaliation against individuals who oppose any form of harassment or discriminatory practice, file a charge or report, or testify, assist or participate in an investigative proceeding or hearing.