Instructor of Jazz Saxophone

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The Department of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill offers a BMus and BA in Music and an MA and Ph.D. in Musicology for undergraduate and graduate students. Our educational mission is to teach music majors and non-majors, to connect the study of music to the larger understanding of the world, and to guide graduate students as researchers and teachers. We serve the public by presenting performances and academic lectures by students, faculty, and guest artists and scholars. We offer over one hundred concerts and recitals each year, and our facilities include a state-of-the-art auditorium with recording (audio and video) capabilities as well as lighting and sound systems. Our 60 full-time and part-time faculty teach approximately 2500 students during the academic year and another 200 during summer school. Through our teaching, research, and creative activities, we share music's multiplicity of forms and meanings, connecting the study of music to the larger understanding of societies, and affirming music's importance as an expression of humanity.

The Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking a Lecturer of Saxophone to provide individual jazz saxophone instruction to undergraduate majors, minors, and non-majors for approximately four weeks in November and early December. With a start-date of October 1, 2026 and an end date of December 31, 2026, the instructor hired for this temporary part-time position will teach weekly individual jazz saxophone lessons to 7-15 students and will direct a weekly studio class on Wednesday from 10AM - 10:50AM, during which all jazz saxophone students enrolled in lessons for two (or more) credit hours meet together.

Master's degree or commensurate professional experience and experience teaching individual lessons are required.

Doctorate in music or commensurate professional experience preferred; demonstrated professional artist-educator experience, including teaching private jazz saxophone lessons at the collegiate level preferred. Applicants with additional experience teaching private classical saxophone lessons are encouraged to apply for both this position and the temporary classical saxophone lecturer position available through the UNC Department of Music.

Not Applicable.

Applicants are asked to submit a document with web/media links to selected recent representative performances in jazz and, if applicable, classical styles. Applicants may be asked to submit teaching evaluations, a teaching philosophy, and sample video recordings of teaching at a later date. Submit a list of four references; references do not need to submit letters at the time of applications; reference letters will be solicited at a later date.

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