Higher Education

Appointments

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Saxophone Instructor, Wesleyan University, 2023–Present
  • Lecturer, Princeton University, 2023
  • Instructor of Music History and Theory, The College of New Jersey, 2021–23
  • Instructor of Music, Temple University, 2021–22
  • Preceptor, Princeton University, 2019–20
  • Teaching Assistant in Music Theory, Temple University, 2015–17
    • 2016 B. Stimson Carrow Prize in Music Theory Pedagogy

Courses Taught

  • Wesleyan University
    • Music 122F: Writing about Sound: What the audible can teach us about our world (First-Year Seminar)
    • Music 106: A Thousand Years of Music History, Spring 2024
    • Music 201: Tonal Harmony (Theory 2), Spring 2024
    • Music 103: Materials and Design (Theory 1), Fall 2023
    • Music 202: Theory and Analysis (Theory 3), Fall 2023
    • Music 405 and 406: Music Lessons, Fall 2023
  • Princeton University
    • Music 436: Seminar in Jazz Analysis, Spring 2023
  • The College of New Jersey
    • Music 263: Musicianship 3, Fall 2022
    • Music 351: Music 600–1750, Spring 2022 and 2023
    • Music 353: Music 1750–1945, Fall 2021
  • Temple University
    • Music Studies 0808: Sounds of Philadelphia, Fall 2021 and 2022, Spring 2022

K-12

From 2016–23, Dylan served as Music Theory Coordinator of Temple University’s Music Preparatory division. He designed the curriculum, supervized a team of graduate teaching assistants, and instructed middle and high school musicians. Alumni have placed into accelerated theory courses for college music majors.

Dylan maintains an active teaching license in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Before entering graduate school, he was employed in the Pennsbury School District, which is consistently named one of NAMM’s Top One Hundred Communities for Music Education. While there, Dylan conducted wind and jazz ensembles.