Assistant Professor of Voice-Tenure Track

The Department of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, invites experienced Artist/Teachers to apply for a tenure-track faculty position in Voice at the rank of Assistant Professor. A tenor is preferred, but all voice types will be considered. Applicants must possess a significant national and international performing record and successful teaching experience. Also required is a demonstrated commitment to: equity, diversity, and inclusion; effective applied instruction; mentoring students in their professional development; and recruitment of high-caliber voice students. Voice artists who are experienced with both classical music and musical theater, jazz, or other contemporary styles are especially encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will maintain a high degree of visibility in the profession. Teaching responsibilities include studio voice for undergraduate performance and music education majors as well as master's and doctoral students in performance degrees. Courses in diction, pedagogy or song literature may also be part of the candidate's teaching responsibilities, depending on their strengths and expertise. Participation on departmental, school, and/or university committees is expected.

A doctoral degree in voice performance or comparable professional experience is required. Preference will be given to applicants with university teaching experience (undergraduate through graduate and professional-level singers). Broad knowledge of both classical vocal repertoire and contemporary styles and genres is preferred. Fluency in Italian, French, or German is desirable. The music department places a high value on collegial relationships, and as such, strong interpersonal skills are expected.

Housed in one of the leading public research universities on the East Coast, The Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts includes approximately 450 students and 100 total faculty, offering bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees ( DMA and PhD) as well as an artist diploma across a comprehensive range of areas in performance, composition, conducting, jazz studies, music education, music theory, and musicology. Students perform, teach, refine their skills, and forge new paths in the arts through their scholastic and creative endeavors, engaging with faculty who are among the world's leaders in their respective fields, including several who are drawn from the nearby New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. Students benefit from proximity to these two cultural hubs, with ensembles regularly performing in such venues as the Blue Note Jazz Club, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall.

Mason Gross School of the Arts, a vibrant community of artists and scholars with academic programs in music, theater, dance, filmmaking, and art & design, is committed to pursuing excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Its 1200 students reflect the diversity of New Jersey, the fourth most diverse state in the nation. In addition to its professional arts training programs, Mason Gross provides the larger community an opportunity to embrace the creative arts through its divisions of Rutgers Arts Online and Rutgers Community Arts. The school is housed within Rutgers-New Brunswick, a premier Big Ten research university that serves some 50,000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The nation's eighth oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers is less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore and just over an hour to Philadelphia.

Additional information is available at the school website: https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu

Mason Gross School of the Arts is deeply committed to the pursuit of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access and especially encourages applications from women, underrepresented minorities, and other individuals who belong to groups that have been historically underrepresented or marginalized within higher education and the arts. Also see the Rutgers Non-Discrimination Statement at the following web address: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement

Candidates should submit:

Selected candidates will be asked, at a later time, to submit links to two, 20-minute videos teaching both a soprano or mezzo and a countertenor, tenor, baritone, or bass, preferably one undergraduate and one graduate student.

For best consideration, apply by December 1, 2022.