Qualifications: An excellent performer wishing to study for a master’s degree in flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, or saxophone performance, while assisting the music faculty with recruitment and marketing. The award decision will take into account any departmental need for a particular instrument.
Responsibilities: Perform with the UNM Wind Symphony and/or the UNM Symphony Orchestra or Jazz Band as needed. Additional duties include acting as liaison to area high schools, development of a woodwind newsletter, assisting with publicity of woodwind events, assisting with organization of recruiting events, and assistance with maintaining the woodwind area website. This is an excellent apprenticeship opportunity for students to develop a variety of professional skills important for success in the music profession, including solo, chamber, and large ensemble performance, marketing, outreach, and recruitment.
Stipend: This is a two-year (four-semester) half assistantship, with total workload of 10 hours per week. Contract is by semester, but renewable if work is satisfactory. The stipend is approximately $6,100 per academic year, in addition to a waiver of tuition (exclusive of special course fees) for up to 6 credits per semester (does not apply to summer tuition). Any additional hours, including summer coursework, can be taken at the resident tuition rate.
Application Deadline: Submit all materials for application to the Graduate Program, and all materials for the assistantship application by March 1.
application materials required:
- Graduate Financial Application Form
- An essay, preferably 2-3 pages in length, addressing your qualifications for this award.
- Applicants are also encouraged to submit letters of recommendation that speak to the specific qualifications for the award (administrative skills, web design experience, interpersonal skills, etc.). If the three letters of recommendation that you submitted for admission to the graduate program did not address these qualifications, please provide additional recommendations for that purpose.
- Applications will be asked to interview with the woodwind faculty and to play an audition for a majority of the woodwind faculty in order to be considered for the award.
Additional Requirements: To be eligible for an assistantship whose duties involve teaching, an international student must demonstrate proficiency in English as determined by the TOEFL: A minimum score of 250 on the computerized version of the test will be required (equivalent to 600 for the paper-based or 100 for the internet version).
Rules governing assistantships: Information may be found in the Department of Music Graduate Handbook, and in the "Graduate Program" section of the UNM Catalog.
