Position Details
Position Information
| Recruitment/Posting Title |
Assistant Professor of Composition (Commercial Music) |
| Department |
MGSA - Music |
| Salary |
Commensurate With Experience |
| Posting Summary |
The Department of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Composition (Commercial Music). We seek a creative, dynamic composer with significant professional experience in media scoring (e.g., film, television, online media, video games) and or/ popular songwriting.
Responsibilities
* Engage in creative and professional activities, including building industry partnerships, producing new work for commercial applications, and fostering interdisciplinary collaborations within the school and university.
* Teach courses and lessons in music composition, specifically focusing on songwriting and/or scoring for film, television, video games, and online media platforms.
* Assess current curriculum offerings and develop a new commercial music program.
* Serve as the administrative leader of the commercial music program, which will include reviewing and revising curricula in media scoring and music production.
* Advise and mentor undergraduate and graduate students.
* Engage in service activities within the Department of Music, the university, and the music composition community at large.
* Participate in committees, student advising, and other departmental responsibilities. |
| Position Status |
Full Time |
| Posting Number |
24FA1023 |
| Posting Open Date |
10/09/2024 |
| Posting Close Date |
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Qualifications
| Minimum Education and Experience |
Required Qualifications
* Master's degree or equivalent professional experience in Media Scoring, Music Technology, Music Composition, or a related field.
* Significant professional experience in songwriting or scoring music for media (film, television, online media, or video games).
* Fluency in digital audio workstations, notation software, sound libraries, studio recording, and other relevant technologies.
* The ability to work collaboratively and create a dynamic educational environment for diverse students.
Preferred Qualifications
* Teaching experience at the college/university level.
* Professional experience with audio post-production (editing, mixing, mastering). |
| Certifications/Licenses |
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| Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities |
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| Equipment Utilized |
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| Physical Demands and Work Environment |
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| Overview |
Housed in one of the leading public research universities on the East Coast, the Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts includes approximately 450 students and 100 total faculty, offering bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees (
DMA and PhD) as well as an artist diploma across a comprehensive range of areas in performance, composition, conducting, jazz studies, music education, music theory, and musicology. Students perform, teach, refine their skills, and forge new paths in the arts through their scholastic and creative endeavors, engaging with faculty who are among the world's leaders in their respective fields, including several who are drawn from the nearby New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. Students benefit from proximity to these two cultural hubs, with ensembles regularly performing in such venues as the Blue Note Jazz Club, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall.
Mason Gross School of the Arts, a vibrant community of artists and scholars with academic programs in music, theater, dance, filmmaking, and art & design, is committed to pursuing excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Its 1200 students reflect the diversity of New Jersey, the fourth most diverse state in the nation. In addition to its professional arts training programs, Mason Gross provides the larger community an opportunity to embrace the creative arts through its divisions of Rutgers Arts Online and Rutgers Community Arts. The school is housed within Rutgers-New Brunswick, a premier Big Ten research university that serves some 44,000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The nation's eighth oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers is less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore and just over an hour to Philadelphia.
Additional information is available at the school website:
https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu |
| Statement |
Mason Gross School of the Arts is deeply committed to the pursuit of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access and especially encourages applications from women, underrepresented minorities, and other individuals who belong to groups that have been historically underrepresented or marginalized within higher education and the arts. Also see the Rutgers Non-Discrimination Statement at the following web address:
http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement |
Posting Details
| Special Instructions to Applicants |
Review of applications will begin on November 15 and will continue until the position is filled. To apply, interested candidates should submit the following materials:
- Cover letter detailing qualifications and vision for the role including a description of how the candidate's creative and pedagogical practice promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Curriculum vitae
- List of three professional and/or academic references with contact information
- Link to website or other artistic portfolio
Please direct questions to Departmental Administrator for Academic Affairs Lisa Passalacqua at
lpassa@mgsa.rutgers.edu or Search Committee Chair Scott Ordway (
scott.ordway@rutgers.edu). Applications will not be accepted via email. |
| Quick Link to Posting |
https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/237415 |
| Campus |
Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| Home Location Campus |
Rutgers University - New Brunswick |
| City |
New Brunswick |
| State |
NJ |
| Location Details |
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