Band Director, Head

Contact: Elizabeth Janzen, Director of the School of Music

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The School of Music at East Texas A&M invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Music (Director of Bands and Instrumental Activities). The successful candidate will provide artistic, academic, and programmatic leadership for the University's band program while contributing to teaching, Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (RSCA), recruitment, outreach, and service. The position includes a reduced teaching load to accommodate administrative duties, in consultation annually with the Director of the School of Music.
The School of Music at East Texas A&M serves approximately 240 music majors across instrumental, vocal, and keyboard areas and is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). It offers baccalaureate and master's degrees in music education and performance, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music. The School of Music is housed in a $30 million music building completed in 2010 containing state-of-the-art recital and concert halls, studios, rehearsal halls, classrooms, and teaching areas.
The band program includes three concert bands, two jazz ensembles, and marching and athletic bands. The Wind Ensemble has performed at both regional and national College Band Directors National Association Conferences as well as the Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention, most recently in 2018. The Wind Ensemble is also actively involved in commissioning and premiering new works from the nation’s leading composers.

The Marching Band performs at all home games as well as exhibitions at marching contests such as the Texas State UIL Marching Band Contest and Bands of America Regionals and Grand Nationals Marching Festival.