Assistant Professor (Applied Trumpet)

Position Title: Assistant Professor (Applied Trumpet)

Department: Music

Campus Location: Washburn University

Application Deadline:  Application review will begin as applications are received and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants can be assured of full consideration if submitted by: March 31, 2025.

Position Summary:
Washburn University’s Department of Music invites applications for the position of Applied Trumpet. The position will begin August 1, 2025. This position is a nine-month, tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor. A completed doctorate is necessary for tenure-track appointment.

Each selected candidate will have a demonstrated commitment to pursuing teaching excellence at Washburn University, including a dedication to developing teaching practices that engage students from all backgrounds.

Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of over 5,500 undergraduate, graduate, and law students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.

Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a vibrant faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a vibrant learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.

Essential Functions:
• Fulfill teaching expectations associated with tenure-track appointment. Teach 12-hours per semester (either in-person or online, according to departmental needs) or equivalent full workload as outlined in the faculty handbook.
• Teach and develop undergraduate applied trumpet majors, classes, and seminars as assigned and as dependent upon department needs, which may include brass techniques, chamber ensemble, trumpet seminar, general education courses or some combination of classes consistent with the candidate’s training and interests.
• Fulfill service expectations associated with tenure-track appointment by engaging in recruitment activities in the department, university, and profession to include school visits, clinics, networking with local music educators, participation in on-campus recruitment events/festivals.
• Develop and maintain an active portfolio of scholarly research/creative activities and service including a national and international profile.
• Direct Faculty Brass Quintet and serve as a member of the WU Faculty Jazz Quintet.
• Perform additional job-related duties as assigned or as appropriate. Additional responsibilities may include the advising of undergraduate brass majors, and participation on department committees.

Required Qualifications:
• Doctorate in Music or Doctorate in Musical Arts; ABD applicants will be considered with completion of doctorate by August 1, 2026.
• A successful record of professional performance in classical and jazz styles.
• A successful record of recruiting and maintaining a studio at the collegiate level.
• At least one-year of collegiate level teaching in applied trumpet.
• Demonstrated dedication to developing teaching practices that engage students from all backgrounds.
• Official educational transcripts are required at the time of hire.

Preferred Qualifications:
• At least three years of collegiate-level teaching experience.
• Experience developing and directing community youth trumpet programs.
• Experience teaching/coaching and performing in chamber ensembles.

Exempt, Full time, Background Check Required

Special Instructions to Applicants: Please upload the following items as a PDF to the “additional document” field via the electronic application: letter of application and links to teaching and performance videos completed within the last five years. Contact information for three current professional references will be collected as part of the application form.
• The successful candidate will be required to submit to a background check prior to employment.
• Official transcripts are required once hired.
If you have any questions about the position, please contact Dr. Anya Pogorelova anya.pogorelova@washburn.edu