Previous JobJob TitleASSISTANT PROFESSOR of MUSIC COMPOSITION / UMKC CONSERVATORY/ Music Division Next JobApply for JobJob ID60551 LocationKansas City Full/Part TimeFull-Time Add to My Favorite JobsEmail this Job Hiring Department UNIVERSITY of MISSOURI-KANSAS CITYCONSERVATORYMusic Division/ Electroacoustic & Technology-Integrated CompositionAt the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, we take pride in
fostering collaboration across the divisions of music, dance, and theatre, and in advancing the integration of art forms through research and creative work. Our integrated arts approach intentionally weaves together multiple disciplines to deepen learning, expand artistic practice, and enrich audience experiences.Building on the Conservatory's recent faculty cohort in Sound, Composition, and Digital & Immersive
Media, this position strengthens a distinct need in the Composition Area: a composer whose work is grounded in traditional concert music and extends that practice through electronic, computational, spatial, interactive, or emerging technologies.The tenure-track position is intended to enhance existing degree programs rather than establish a new program. It will expand students' access to contemporary tools and
practices within the Conservatory's established undergraduate and graduate composition curriculum, while complementing existing strengths in concert music, jazz, opera, cross-genre composition, and media composition. Job Description Assistant Professor of Music Composition(Electroacoustic and Technology-Integrated Composition)The UMKC Conservatory invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor
position in Music Composition with a focus on electroacoustic and technology-integrated composition, beginning in Fall 2027.We seek a composer-technologist with deep concert-music fluency: an artist-scholar who can teach acoustic composition and orchestration while leading students into electroacoustic, computational, spatial, interactive, and emerging creative practices. The successful candidate will understand
technology not simply as a production tool, but as a compositional medium that can deepen questions of sound, form, performance, space, and musical meaning.Areas of practice may include electroacoustic or acousmatic composition, computer music, sound synthesis, live electronics, spatial audio, creative coding, interactive systems, algorithmic or generative composition, sound installation, AI-assisted creative
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