Assistant Professor of Wind Studies

Title: Assistant Professor of Wind Studies

Employee Classification: Asst Professor

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Provost

Sub Division-Department: UNT-College of Music

Department: UNT-Conducting & Ensembles-134310

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

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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 (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The University of North Texas Wind Studies Area, as part of the Division of Conducting & Ensembles of the College of Music, has as its primary mission the preparation of instrumentalists and conductors for professional careers in performance and education. It is our goal to provide a program that will develop well-rounded musicians who are prepared to face the challenges of an increasingly global, rapidly changing, and inevitably interconnected musical world.

In addition, we are directed toward maintaining a leadership role locally, nationally, and internationally. The program serves approximately 800 undergraduate and graduate music majors. Performance opportunities include Wind Symphony, Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Concert Winds, Symphonic Winds, University Winds, Brass Band, Green Brigade Marching Band, and Varsity Band. For more information about UNT Wind Studies, please see .

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:
  Conduct the Wind Orchestra. Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting, history, and repertoire of the wind band, commensurate to the strengths of the successful candidate. Coordinate the graduate related field (minor) in wind…