Instructor of Jazz Guitar

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The Department of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill offers a BM and BA in Music Performance and an MA and Ph.D. in Musicology for undergraduate and graduate students. Our mission is to educate performance and musicology majors and to provide general music courses for non-major students. We serve the public by presenting performances by students, faculty, and guest artists. We offer over one hundred concerts and recitals each year. We have a newly-renovated, state-of-the-art auditorium which includes recording (audio and video) as well as an improved lighting and sound system. We have a total of 60 full- and part-time faculty who teach approximately 2500 students during the academic year and another 200 during Summer School. Through our teaching, research, and creativity 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 is seeking a jazz guitar instructor to provide individual instruction and group studio class to jazz guitar students. Individual instruction will involve teaching .5 - 1.0 hour lessons to students. Studio class instruction will involve holding a 1 hour class once per week during which students enrolled in private instruction will meet together to discuss subjects and repertoire related to jazz guitar study.

Minimum of Masters degree or commensurate professional experience.

A Masters degree or higher is preferred.
Applicants should have experience teaching jazz guitar at a college/university level.

Not Applicable.

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