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Professor of Music Performance Studies University of California Los Angeles Requisition Number: JPF10112 The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is pleased to invite applications for a tenured position as Professor of Music Performance Studies. The salary range for this position is $112,900 – $205,400. ‘Off-scale salaries’ and other components of pay, i.e., a salary that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions. Salary and rank commensurate with qualifications and professional experience. A minimum of a Doctorate degree or equivalent professional experience required. Anticipated start date is July 1, 2025. The University of California seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives and ways of knowing and learning. UCLA has programs to assist in partner employment, childcare, schooling, and other family concerns. Please visit www.ucla.edu/faculty for information about Family Resources. The Department seeks to appoint a performer-scholar who can serve as a pivotal member of a distinctive MM/DMA graduate program centered on the performance of Western art music, within the context of a major research university. As part of UCLA’s Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts programs, Performance Studies blends scholarship and performance, balancing intellectual and intuitive aspects of music study, with emphasis on the Western Classical repertory. The teaching expectations include graduate seminars on such topics as notation and performance, bibliography and research, analysis for performers, and other courses devoted to chronological periods of music, as well as the advising of dissertations. Some teaching of larger undergraduate courses may also be expected. The successful candidate should possess a broad skill set that encompasses as many of the following as possible: substantial experience and abilities in performance as well as a research orientation, as reflected in work in the area of music performance studies, including but not limited to: historically informed performance; writing related to performance, style, and history; organology; and the application of musical analysis to performance documented skills as a professional level performer, such as recordings and/or professionally-reviewed public performances substantial experience teaching graduate-level academic courses, within the same or similar scope of UCLA’s DMA curriculum experience guiding DMA dissertations the ability to coach soloists and ensembles a commitment to mentoring graduate students in both academic and career matters experience in teaching undergraduate music history and/or other General Education courses in music interest in contributing to the collective ideals of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music while honoring its legacy commitment to both performance and scholarship. To ensure full consideration, all materials must be submitted to : http://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10112 by February 24, 2025. Applicants should submit 1) a letter of interest with special attention to their vision of the role of performance studies in the broader training of professional musicians and educators; 2) a professional resume; 3) a selection of writings about music, especially with relation to performance issues (in PDF format) and links to live or recorded performances; 4) a statement of the applicant’s involvement and/or leadership in the promotion of equity and diversity in an educational or performance setting; and 5) the names and contact information of at least three professional references. The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, bullying and other demeaning behavior, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this commitment as well as a commitment to addressing all forms of academic misconduct, UCLA conducts targeted employment reference checks for finalists to whom departments or other hiring units would like to extend formal offers of appointment into Academic Senate faculty positions. The targeted employment reference checks involve contacting the finalists’ current and prior places of employment to ask whether there have been substantiated findings of misconduct that would violate the University’s Faculty Code of Conduct. To implement this process, UCLA requires all applicants for Academic Senate faculty positions to complete, sign, and upload the form entitled ‘Authorization to Release Information’ into RECRUIT as part of their application. If the applicant does not include the signed authorization to release information with the application materials, the application will be considered incomplete. As with any incomplete application, the application will not receive further consideration. Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the entire application, only finalists (i.e., those to whom the department or other hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer) considered for Academic Senate faculty positions will be subject to targeted employment reference checks. To apply, please visit: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10112 The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy, https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/DiscHarassAffirmAction jeid-86430015342a3949bc36958f6b296678