Lecturer in Music Performance

About the Department

The Department of Music is one of the largest and most vibrant in the UK, with over 300 students across two undergraduate programmes (Music and Popular Music), and over 100 students on Masters and PhD programmes. Performance and creative practice sit at the heart of the Music Department’s teaching, and embrace a very wide range of repertoire, genres and approaches, from traditional orchestral and choral contexts, to popular music of all persuasions, jazz and improvised musics, gamelan, electronic and sonic arts, and cross-disciplinary and installation work

About the Role

The Department of Music wishes to appoint a performer and scholar whose work is grounded in the practices of 20th and 21st century art music.  The role holder will convene and teach performance modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and will develop co-curricular performance activity in order to enrich student experience and build on Goldsmiths’ reputation in contemporary music.  They will also act as a Personal Tutor to provide academic and pastoral guidance to students and activate professional networks and develop external partnerships to bring students into contact with a wide range of musics, musicians and professional experiences.

About the Candidate

The successful candidate will evidence their specialism in at least two of the following areas: 1) experimental music histories and futures; 2) site-specific and/or  networked performance methods; 3) technologically or otherwise expanded performance practices. The successful applicant will have cultivated a mature individual artistic practice and a significant professional network. They will have experience in teaching and organisation in Higher Education or equivalent developmental and organisational experience. Their approach will be student-centred and oriented towards the realisation of student creative potential at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Although we aim to appoint at 0.5FTE, a job share may be considered if appropriate, in which case one appointment would be made at 0.3FTE.

Benefits

We have generous benefits – an agile working environment, 28 days’ annual leave plus 6 paid closure days (4 at Christmas and 2 at Easter) plus all Bank Holidays, great transport links, a defined benefit pension scheme, support for professional development and a broad range of wellbeing initiatives such as staff choir, running club and creative writing classes.

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