What are the responsibilities and job description for the Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet / Jazz Band position at Elizabethtown College?
Elizabethtown College seeks an Adjunct Instructor of Applied Trumpet and Jazz Band for the fall 2025 semester.
The successful candidate will demonstrate significant musicianship, teaching experience, and expertise relevant to teaching Jazz Ensemble. The Jazz Band meets on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm-9:00pm. We seek candidates who have strong reputations and are able to contribute to the recruitment of trumpet students. This position will also teach a brass methods class.
The successful candidate will demonstrate significant musicianship, teaching experience, and expertise relevant to teaching Jazz Ensemble. The Jazz Band meets on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm-9:00pm. We seek candidates who have strong reputations and are able to contribute to the recruitment of trumpet students. This position will also teach a brass methods class.
Job Duties
The successful candidate will teach applied trumpet lessons and Jazz Band on Wednesday evenings. The trumpet studio currently has a very low enrollment of one student. We are looking for a candidate who can recruit and build the strength of our trumpet studio. Some additional compensation is possible to support the recruitment of a larger studio.
Required Qualifications
A master’s or doctoral degree in music.
Relevant professional performance experience on trumpet.
Experience relevant to teaching a Jazz Ensemble
Please attach cover letter, CV, ACT153 clearances (PA State Police, PA Child Abuse & FBI) if completed within the last five years, if available and contact information for (3) references.
Relevant professional performance experience on trumpet.
Experience relevant to teaching a Jazz Ensemble
Please attach cover letter, CV, ACT153 clearances (PA State Police, PA Child Abuse & FBI) if completed within the last five years, if available and contact information for (3) references.
Preferred Qualifications
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number
F360P
Open Date
04/08/2025
Close Date
Open Until Filled
Yes
About Elizabethtown College
Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown College offers its 1,800 students more than 75 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its commitment to “Educate for Service,” Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives, and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose and leadership as global citizens. For more information, consult www.etown.edu.
Elizabethtown College is committed to valuing and fostering the diversity reflected in our life together and in the world beyond our campus. We strive to ensure that the members of the community—students, faculty, staff, and administrators—are diverse in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, ability, gender, gender identity and expression, age, and national origin. We also seek to provide our community members, especially our students, with educational opportunities, programs, and services that are multicultural in content and expressive of a diverse life of experiences and worldviews that underrepresented groups bring to the learning environment.
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