Part-Time Lecturer (Guitar)

Required Qualifications

National and/or international reputation as an outstanding guitarist, in the entire spectrum of literature (including contemporary music) for the classical guitar.
Strong background in the performance and teaching of acoustic and electric guitar.
Experience teaching guitar to advanced students.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong background in the playing and teaching of at least two or more of the following: hist. guitar and theorbo, improvisation, jazz, pop music, and vernacular musics such as Latin American or Asian.
Interest in the cultural context of guitar in Western and non-Western music.
Ability to recruit appropriately-skilled guitarists, with an emphasis on recruiting a diverse class.

Responsibilities & Requirements

Faculty will teach weekly acoustic guitar and/or electric guitar lessons to advanced undergraduate and graduate students throughout the academic year, give regular studio classes, sit on audition panels and juries, and be available for chamber music coaching. A strong academic background is desired as the appointee will also help to prepare students for lecture recitals on guitar and related literature and participate in the supervision of students' doctoral work.

Special Notes

This is a non-tenure track position. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Internal and external search to occur simultaneously. Anticipated Start Date: September 1, 2020.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.

Stony Brook University is 100% tobacco-free as of January 1, 2016. See our policy and learn more at stonybrook.edu/tobaccofree.

The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.

Application Procedure

Those interested in this position should:

1. Complete the online Applicant Information Survey. Do not submit this survey to the department with your application. Any questions regarding the survey, please email oide@stonybrook.edu.

2. Submit a State Employment Application, letter of application explicitly addressing all required and preferred qualifications, CV that includes performance and teaching experience and a list of at least three references (no letters at this time) by clicking Apply or through the Academic Jobs Online application https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14507. Alternately, you may submit your application package to the departmental address or fax below.

Screening begins on September 23rd but applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

The performance program at Stony Brook enrolls musicians at a very advanced pre-professional level at the undergraduate, masters, and DMA levels.

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Arthur Haas

Department of Music

3304 Staller Center for the Arts

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY 11794-5475

Campus Description

Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff. SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes 34 public universities among its 62 members. SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art healthcare in the Long Island region. SBU also manages and performs joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute. Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New York, the Humanities Institute, and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, SBU sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Official Job Title:	Part-Time Lecturer (Guitar)
REF#:	F-10075-19-09
Campus:	Stony Brook West Campus
Department:	Music - College of Arts and Sciences
Salary:	Commensurate with Experience
Posting Start Date:	09/12/2019
Posting End Date:	11/12/2019

Applications for this position must be received, as specified in the Application Procedure Section, no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on 11/12/2019, unless specifically noted otherwise in the Special Notes Section.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Stony Brook University is committed to excellence in diversity and the creation of an inclusive learning, and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information,veteran status and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

If you need a disability-related accommodation, please call the university office of institutional diversity and equity at (631)632-6280.

Job Category: Faculty and Librarian

Posting Date: 09/12/2019