Assistant/Associate Professor—Jazz Performance
Department: Music
Reports to: Department Chair
Supervises: n/a
Purpose:
Teach beginning through advanced jazz instrumental performance students in a four-year program leading to a Bachelor of Music degree.
Responsibilities:
1. Teach courses in the music curriculum as appropriate including:
- Jazz ensembles, improvisation, and jazz repertoire courses
- Electives and other coursework within area of performance specialization
2. Provide individual instruction to jazz instrumental performance students
3. Participate in fulltime faculty institutional service, including:
- Attending departmental faculty meetings and retreats
- Participating in departmental and College-wide committees
- Attending and evaluating music student recitals
- Participating in departmental admission auditions
4. Perform and record on a regular basis so as to maintain a national and/or international profile as a practicing jazz artist
Minimum Qualifications:
- An actively performing jazz artist whose primary instrument is trumpet, trombone, saxophone, or other brass or woodwind instrument (French horn, clarinet, etc.)
- Master's degree and an active, established career; OR equivalent experience as an artist of national or international stature with a distinguished body of work
- At least three years of substantial teaching experience, preferably in a college setting
- Ability to work closely and compatibly with a diverse student body, faculty, and staff
- Ability to represent the college well at a national level
Preferred Qualifications:
- An artist with an individual and compelling artistic voice able to serve as an effective mentor and role model to aspiring young musicians
- Strong knowledge of jazz theory; knowledge of classical theory helpful.
- Broad interests and exposure to many types of music, alone and in combination with the other arts (dance, theater, film, etc.).
Application Procedures
Candidates meeting the minimum qualifications are asked to submit an official Cornish Employment Application, curriculum vitae including a discography, performance history, and record of teaching experience, a statement of teaching philosophy, and one or two representative recordings (CD or DVD only; no audio or video tapes) to:
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