Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Group Piano

Location: El Paso, TX Category: Liberal Arts Job Type: Full-time Posted On: Thu Oct 1 2026

An accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music, the UTEP Department of Music enrolls more than 300 music majors in undergraduate and graduate programs in performance, music education, conducting, theory and composition, commercial music, and music technology. Facilities include a 450-seat performance hall, the Digital Keyboard Laboratory, recording studios, computer and practice labs, and teaching spaces. The Department maintains professional collaborations with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, El Paso Winds, El Paso Opera, and El Paso Pro-Musica, while the broader UTEP campus supports faculty research, creative activity, and professional development.

The UTEP Piano Area supports undergraduate and graduate study in piano performance, piano pedagogy, music education, and related fields. As a Hispanic-Serving Institution located in the El Paso‑Juárez U.S.

-Mexico border region, UTEP serves students from a wide range of educational, cultural, and musical backgrounds. This distinctive setting offers meaningful opportunities for piano pedagogy, teacher preparation, community engagement, and professional partnerships within the region and beyond. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help shape a contemporary piano pedagogy program connecting teacher preparation, group piano, keyboard technology, scholarship, and community engagement.

The Department of Music at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Group Piano, beginning Fall 2027. We seek an imaginative, collaborative, and forward-thinking piano pedagogue whose primary professional identity is rooted in piano teaching, pedagogy scholarship, group‑piano instruction, and the preparation of future piano teachers.

This position offers an opportunity to lead and develop UTEP's Piano Pedagogy and Group Piano programs and to advance innovative teaching, scholarship, teacher preparation, and professional development through UTEP's Digital Keyboard Laboratory. The successful candidate's primary teaching and scholarly focus will be piano pedagogy; performance activity is welcomed as a complementary dimension of the candidate's professional profile.

UTEP's Digital Keyboard Laboratory is a distinctive, state‑of‑the‑art facility with 20 student keyboard stations, a teacher console, an acoustic piano, interactive teaching tools, observation capabilities, and specialized pedagogy resources. The laboratory provides a platform for technology‑enhanced group piano, supervised teacher preparation, pedagogical research, workshops, professional development, and innovative instructional practices. The successful candidate will have significant freedom to help shape the laboratory's future use and visibility within the profession.

• Teach and develop UTEP's undergraduate Piano Pedagogy sequence and teach graduate‑level Piano Pedagogy as appropriate. Teaching Assistants may also be included in this group.
• Coordinate and contribute to UTEP's four-semester Group/Class Piano sequence for music majors, including curriculum, proficiency expectations, assessment, and instructional continuity.
• Mentor students in individual and group‑piano teaching through observation, supervised teaching, practica, and other experiential learning; mentor graduate research and teaching as appropriate.
• Provide pedagogical leadership for the Digital Keyboard Laboratory and advance its use for teaching, teacher preparation, research, workshops, and professional development.
• Establish and sustain a scholarly and creative agenda centered in piano pedagogy and…