Assistant Professor of Music

About the role

The Rhodes College Department of Music invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Music (choral) to begin August 2027. Rhodes hosts a thriving music community at this small liberal arts college with big-city opportunities. It is the mission of the Department of Music to create a welcoming and collaborative undergraduate community that combines the best of the classroom, the practice room, and the real world through performing, internships, service, research, and other opportunities in Memphis and beyond. Our students participate in all aspects of the music program while pursuing any major at Rhodes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a dynamic choral director with expertise in and advocacy for broad and diverse choral works, including but not limited to non-Western music, the music of traditionally marginalized groups, and/or World music.
• Lead Rhodes College’s flagship concert choir, Rhodes Singers.
• Teach conducting and courses in an area of specialization (e.g., history, theory, electronic music production, record engineering, composition, computer music) to complete a 3/2 teaching load each academic year.
• Contribute to interdisciplinary programs (e.g., Africana Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Jewish/Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies, Search [Interdisciplinary Humanities], Urban Studies).
• Develop a trajectory for research and/or creative activity.

Requirements

• Doctorate in Music
• Evidence of experience and success in directing choirs and in higher education teaching
• Evidence of teaching conducting
• Ability to teach courses in other (interdisciplinary) areas
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• College-level teaching experience
• Relevant industry and practical experience