Full-Time Artist/Teacher Studio Voice and Lyric Theater

Job Description

Duties:
Voice studio instruction; primary responsibility for coordinating and producing opera, operettas, and musical theater as integrated components in the context of a highly respected vocal arts curriculum. Other assignments could include teaching acting in opera and musicals, movement class, scene study, a seminar for first-year students, class voice, and other vocal performance topics. The successful candidate will demonstrate skills in student recruitment and community outreach and participate fully in the service of the university including student advising, and will be expected to pursue creative activities appropriate to the discipline.

Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have significant professional experience in vocal instruction and in the staging, musical direction, and performance of diverse genres of musical productions, as well as understanding the environment of a top-tier liberal arts institution. The candidate’s background should include opera as well as classical and modern musical theater. Undergraduate and graduate performance degrees in music or musical theater are expected; a doctorate or commensurate professional experience is required.

Furman University is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. Additional information about the Department and the University can be found at http://www.furman.edu.
Deadline: March 2, 2012 or until position filled. Interviews will take place beginning in mid-late March 2012.

Please indicate your interest by a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, evidence of teaching and performing excellence and official transcripts of all degree work.
Please do not send recordings or videos at this time.

Candidates are strongly encouraged to apply electronically to voice@furman.edu.

Letters of recommendation should be submitted directly to Dr. Mark E. Britt, Chair, Furman University, Department of Music, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, SC 29613-1154.

Hard copies of all materials are also acceptable.

Furman University is a highly selective, independent, top 50 undergraduate liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 2700 students. The university, located in the vibrant and beautiful upstate region of South Carolina, offers generous benefits to full-time faculty, and subscribes to a problem-solving, project-oriented, experience-based approach to education that is referred to as Engaged Learning. Our faculty enjoys an atmosphere of collegiality and mutual respect that rewards outstanding teaching and fosters active intellectual and creative engagement. The Department of Music is a full member of NASM since 1938. Requirements for entrance to the major, curricular standards, and graduation requirements are in accordance with the published regulations of that body. Furman offers the BM degree in performance, music education, church music, music theory, and composition, as well as the general BA degree in music. There are approximately 200 music majors with significant non-major student involvement in the department’s activities. The department includes 20 full time faculty members and 20 adjunct/part-time teachers

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• Job Title:	Artist/Teacher Studio Voice and Lyric Theater
• Job Type:	Full-Time Job
• Employer:	Furman University
• website:	http://eweb.furman.edu/~rbryson/dramadept/dramadept.html
• Location:	Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Job Categories: Featured and Theatre. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: artist, studio, teacher, teaching, and theater. State: South Carolina.
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