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Affiliate Instructor - Applied Piano

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Posting Details

Posting Details

Position Title Affiliate Instructor - Applied Piano
Faculty Type Per Course
Office/Department Visual and Performing Arts
Work Environment Onsite
Location Evergreen Main Campus
Faculty Job Type Per Course
If Temporary or Visiting, Estimated End Date:
Position Duties
Loyola University Maryland is pleased to announce an Affiliate Piano Instructor position in the Visual and Performing Arts Department’s Music Program at the Loyola University Maryland, with an anticipated start date of September 2023. The successful candidate will join a highly skilled and dedicated applied faculty as part of an active department committed to helping students of all levels achieve their potential; we embrace the novice musician as well as the serious student aspiring toward a career in music.

Ideal candidates should be experienced and comfortable teaching collegiate students of all levels (beginner to advanced) as part of the Music Program’s applied affiliate faculty. Teachers set their teaching schedules in conjunction with student availability (typically during normal class hours), but late-afternoon, evening, and/or Saturday hours are also acceptable.

Lessons are either 30 minutes or 45 minutes in duration. A 30-minute lesson is $400/student per semester; a 45-minute lesson is $600/student per semester. Pay is based on student number and length of lesson. The position pay schedule is twice each semester, once at mid-term, and once following the final class day of the semester.

Duties:

  • Teach private piano lessons to Loyola students at all skill levels ranging from beginner to advanced levels during the fall and spring semesters (13 weekly lessons per student each semester).
  • Participate in and assist with end-of-semester juries.
Required Qualifications
  •  Master’s degree in piano performance and/or pedagogy is required. 
  •  Doctorate degree or equivalent experience and training is highly preferred. 
  •  Documented successful teaching experience required.
  •  Documented successful performing experience encouraged.

Preferred Qualifications
Job Posting Date 06/28/2023
Priority Application Deadline Date 08/04/2023
Job Close Date
Anticipated Start Date 09/05/2023
University Description
Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, Loyola inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Loyola’s beautiful, historic Evergreen campus is located in Baltimore, and its graduate centers are in Timonium and Columbia. Loyola enrolls 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students across the Sellinger School of Business and Management, the School of Education, and Loyola College of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1852, Loyola is one of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and the first to bear the name of Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.
Diversity Statement
Loyola University Maryland strongly values the benefits that diversity brings to the workplace. In accord with its Ignatian values, the University is committed to creating and promoting a community that recognizes the inherent value and dignity of each person. Loyola University Maryland does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected classification. The University recruits, hires, and promotes in accord with this policy and its Core Values.
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Successful candidates for any staff, faculty, or administrative position at Loyola University Maryland will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
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  2. Curriculum Vitae
  3. List of References
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