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PMU191-491Y1 Chamber Music - Strings

Date Posted: 06/16/2025
Req ID: 40298
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Music
Department: Faculty of Music
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

 

Description:

PMU191-491Y1 Chamber Music - Strings.

A complete application includes your responses to the application form with a cover letter and current Curriculum Vitae; click here to apply. 

Course Description: Instruction in small ensemble performance, e.g. string quartets, piano trios.

Class Schedule: Coaching times TBA dependent on coordination of student timetables. September 2025 to April 2026 

Salary: $6,481.66

Estimated Course Enrollment: Anticipated number of string sections: 2 (dependent on student enrollment). Student enrollment sub-divided into multiple chamber ensemble sections as assigned by the coordinator. It is understood that the organization and number of chamber ensemble sections is tentative, pending final course instrumentation, determinations and enrollment.

TA support: yes

Qualifications: Graduate degree in performance or equivalent professional experience. Extensive knowledge of chamber music repertoire and with specific expertise in repertoire for piano and strings. Active performance career combined with demonstrated excellence teaching chamber music at the university level. Hiring of string chamber music instructors will take into account a breadth of instrument specialization needs as determined by the coordinator in consultation with the Performance Office.

Duties: Duties include one hour of coaching each week with the assigned chamber ensemble (time TBD). Coaches are also required to attend the masterclasses and participate in the coaching and evaluation of students in the course. If a coach has a conflict with the attendance at a scheduled masterclass, a suitable substitute should be arranged in consultation with the Chamber Music Coordinators. 

A complete application includes your responses to the application form with a cover letter and current Curriculum Vitae; click here to apply. 

Daphne Tan 
Associate Dean, Academic & Student Affairs 
Associate Professor, Music Theory 
Faculty of Music 
University of Toronto 
80 Queen’s Park 
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5 

These jobs are posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.  It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Closing Date: 07/04/2025, 11:59PM EDT
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This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. 

 

 

 

 

 It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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