Part-time Contract Woodwind Teaching Artists

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has opportunities available for immediate hire Part-Time Contract Woodwind Teaching Artists in our Kim Noltemy Young Musicians program. One of many educational programs offered through the Dallas Symphony, Young Musicians is a year-round, summer, and after-school music program designed to nurture and empower youth in southern Dallas and beyond. This position carries great responsibility as it influences and changes lives on a daily basis promoting the power of music as a vehicle for social change in students’ lives. Students will often be separated by instrument family for sectional rehearsals, but teachers are expected to be prepared to lead all instruments in an orchestral setting in an as needed basis in accordance with the Young Musicians/El Sistema educational philosophy. The teaching approach for this position is based in El Sistema, a Venezuelan philosophy and program that uses music as the vehicle for social change.