Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Woodwind Studies

Position: Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Woodwind Studies
Effective Date: August 18, 2025 (Fall Semester)
Salary Range: The Assistant Professor (Academic Year) classification salary is $74,652 to $158,688/per year. The anticipated hiring range is $74,652 to $105,000/per year. Salary offered is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Application Deadline: Review of applications to begin on or around October 28, 2024. Position open until filled (or recruitment canceled).

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). It also earned the prestigious Seal of Excelencia in 2023, joining a distinctive group of colleges and universities who have been recognized for its commitment to Latine/x student success. CSULB is committed to serving diverse students and has established and actively supports the Black Excellence Collegium, dedicated to promoting Black excellence and advancing Black Student Success, and El Concilio for Latinx Success at the Beach, whose mission is to build capacity and promote inclusive servingness across initiatives and efforts towards Latine/x student, faculty, and staff success across campus. The President’s Equity and Change Commission is dedicated to achieving inclusive excellence in our community and culture and to interrogate, disrupt, and transform systemic inequities throughout the university. CSULB’s Beach 2030 University Action Plans prioritize engaging all students; expanding access to higher education; promoting intellectual achievement; building community; and cultivating resilience.

College of Arts
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music

The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music (BCCM) seeks an innovative colleague to be Director of our outstanding Woodwind Department. The Woodwind area includes approximately 70 undergraduate and graduate students.

Required Qualifications:           

• M.M. Degree in Woodwind Performance
• At least three years college-level teaching or graduate assistant experience
• Broad knowledge of woodwind pedagogical approaches
• Documented experience in a variety of musical performance styles, including solo, orchestral, band, jazz, or chamber music
• Demonstrated potential for inclusive teaching and sustaining a productive track record in research, scholarly and creative activities, and service
• Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population, including Black/African American, Latine/x, Native American/Indigenous, low-income, first-generation, and minoritized students

Preferred Qualifications:          

• DMA in Woodwind Performance. Degree at time of application or official notification of completion of the degree by August 1, 2025.
• Five to seven years of college-level music teaching experience
• Documented professional experience in a variety of musical performance styles, including, solo, orchestral, band, jazz, and chamber music
• Experience teaching, commissioning, and performing music by underrepresented composers
• Demonstrated record of peer-reviewed research, creative, or scholarly activities
• Demonstrated leadership and/or service at the college level
• Experience of successfully working with populations demographically and/or socioeconomically similar to the CSULB student body (Demographics)
• Experience mentoring or supporting students with minoritized identities or experience using inclusive and culturally relevant teaching strategies in a diverse classroom

Duties:                                     

• Teach courses appropriate to the candidate’s specialty, education, and experience as well as department need. These may include but are not limited to private lessons; chamber music; music business; and theory or history. [Mode of instruction may include in-person, hybrid, online, and/or any combination thereof.]
• Recruit new woodwind students
• Mentor and supervise students in the woodwind program
• Engage in program-related service activities such as recruitment and evaluation of lecturers
• Develop and sustain currency in the field of music performance
• Develop and sustain research, scholarly and creative activities in the field leading to performance, presentation