Sanford Hinderlie has been a member of the music faculty at Loyola University New Orleans since 1981. As professor of music he works with students in the College of Music and Fine Arts, teaching contemporary music and technology in the Department of Film and Music Industry Studies. Professor Hinderlie has also taught jazz piano, music theory, music technology, recording, the history of New Orleans and American popular music, and music theory of popular music, in which he has created new texts. From 2008-2009, he was the Benjamin Distinguished Professor of Music, and from 2009-2014, he held the Rita O. Huntsinger Distinguished Professorship of Music. He has served as a visiting professor at the Jesuit Elisabeth Conservatory in Hiroshima, Japan, as well as at the Tbilisi Conservatory of Music, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Currently, he leads the Bachelor of Science of Popular and Commercial Music degree at Loyola University New Orleans, begun in 2015.

As an educator, Professor Hinderlie is keenly interested in the opportunities that new technologies provide for music composition, performance, and recording. He has written several successful grants through the State of Louisiana Board of Regents Enhancement Grants to build music technology labs and the recording studios in the College of Music and Fine Arts. Moreover, as an active member of the College Music Society he has been involved in development of a joint program with the CMS and the National Association of Music Merchants to connect students interested in music technology and pro audio.

Professor Hinderlie has presented papers in many national and international academic conferences, including the College Music Society; the London Education Research Symposium Round Table at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, London; the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the International Conference Music Learning: Benefits for the 21^st-Century Learner, Quebec; the International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona; the International Conference of Education Research and Innovation, Madrid; the Oxford Round Table, University of Oxford; the Association for Technology in Music Instruction, Quebec City; the National Symposium on Music Instruction Technology, Illinois State University; MIDEM Music Industry Conference, Cannes, France; and was the keynote speaker at Universite d’Aix-Marseille, “La Nouvelle-Orléans: La Citeé Décalée (New Orleans: The Misfit City).”