Resumes: champion/advocate of NEW MUSIC and MUSIC EDUCATION

[Michael Bush]

Searching "champion of new music" turns up some possible sources that a lot of people just out of music school have in common. There's a newish composition award, a radio story on Robert Spano, etc.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22champion+o ... et="_blank

Appears to be the jargon du jour.

[Three Valves]

"champions of new music"

South County champion??

State champion??

Eastern league champion??

North American champion??

World champion??

Which is it??

[windshieldbug]

"advocates of music education."

I strongly recommend use of music education, too.
Beats the alternative!

[groovlow]

How about a new thread?

RESUME GENERATORS THAT WON A JOB

[MartyNeilan]

There may be a very intentional reason for this. Many fields now use automated resume filtering for the first round - a human being only sees what the algorithm has preselected. If you don't include the right buzzwords, it never makes it to HR.

Marty "World class sound" Neilan

[AHynds]

So, I'm curious--if someone really is a "champion of new music", how would you suggest that they demonstrate that on their resume without coming off as a phony? I'm asking with genuine sincerity!

And as someone who is a proponent of contemporary music, the term "champion of new music" is somewhat of a cop-out.

[Tom]

Be sure to mention that you're an avid chamber musician as well!

Gotta get all your buzz words in there!

[Three Valves]

So, I'm curious--if someone really is a "champion of new music", how would you suggest that they demonstrate that on their resume without coming off as a phony?

Impossible

It's a trick question.

Everyone knows "new music" is unlistenable.

They put that in there just to weed out the phonies!!

[Mark]

So, I'm curious--if someone really is a "champion of new music", how would you suggest that they demonstrate that on their resume without coming off as a phony? I'm asking with genuine sincerity!

And as someone who is a proponent of contemporary music, the term "champion of new music" is somewhat of a cop-out.

If they make it to the interview phase, one of the questions should be "Exactly how have you championed new music?".

[PMeuph]

So, I'm curious--if someone really is a "champion of new music", how would you suggest that they demonstrate that on their resume without coming off as a phony? I'm asking with genuine sincerity!

And as someone who is a proponent of contemporary music, the term "champion of new music" is somewhat of a cop-out.

Composers include a work list with their CV/Resumés
Academics include a publication list and conference list.
etc...

I assume that if one is a champion of new music, they would have lecture-recitals, recitals, commisions, contest wins...etc... They could be added as an appendix or intergrated in the CV/Resumé.... I speculate a hiring commitee would be more intested in the fact that you premiered several works rather than knowing you are a "champion of new music"

[ufonium2]

There may be a very intentional reason for this. Many fields now use automated resume filtering for the first round - a human being only sees what the algorithm has preselected. If you don't include the right buzzwords, it never makes it to HR.

Also, as hard as it is for normal people to believe, there is a small segment of the population that takes buzzwords seriously. Those people become administrators, and they are on hiring committees. I'm at a small college, and on any given hiring committee for a music position, non-musicians would outnumber musicians. So while the music faculty on the committee would certainly look for commissions, performances, etc. as proof of commitment to new music, I can totally see an administrator or staff person on the committee saying "You said a commitment to new music was important and this guy doesn't mention it in his letter, so he's off the list."