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AY2024-2025 Music: 5779 Assistant or Associate Professor (Director of Choral Activities)
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Position Number: 4815349
Location: Dallas, TX
Position Type: Fine and Applied Arts - Music

AY2024-2025 Music: 5779 Assistant or Associate Professor (Director of Choral Activities)
Meadows School of the Arts

Location: Dallas, TX
Open Date: Nov 22, 2023

Description:
The Division of Music in the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities position beginning August 2024. We seek a collaboratively minded faculty member, accomplished as conductor and teacher. The successful candidate will bring imagination and innovation to the choral curriculum through artistry in performance; effective implementation of sound pedagogy; engagement with a diverse representation of choral music and vocal styles, including vernacular and non-Western musics; and an established record as recruiter and mentor to gifted singers and conductors.

The Division of Music is a professional, comprehensive institution devoted to the advancement of performance and scholarship, the preparation of the next generation of music professionals, and service in the artistic life of our community, nation, and world. The faculty of internationally acclaimed artists, scholars, and educators care deeply about their students and work collaboratively to serve the mission of the Division.

Responsibilities:

1. Artistic and administrative oversight of the choral program, including rehearsing and conducting the ensembles in concert and at university functions.

2. Teach undergraduate and graduate choral conducting and literature courses.

3. Sustain a distinguished creative agenda reflecting SMU's requirements for promotion and tenure.

4. Collaborate with music faculty in teaching, performance, and curricular development.

5. Collaborate with the Sacred Music Program to enliven its choral offerings.

6. Recruit through vibrant relationships in the community, including secondary-school choral programs.

7. Recruit and mentor choral teaching assistants.

8. Serve the university via committee work and active participation in the cultural and intellectual life of the institution.

Qualifications:
Minimum (required) qualifications

1. Terminal degree in choral conducting, or a masters degree with significant professional accomplishment.

2. Evidence of collegiate teaching excellence.

3. Experience reflecting an investment in choral singing in religious and liturgical contexts, and in K-12 school choral programs.

4. Evidence of productive collaboration with peers to the broad benefit of the schools vision.

Preferred qualifications

1. Experience as a conductor at state, regional, or national conferences and festivals.

2. Experience teaching high-school or church choirs.

3. Experience teaching graduate choral conducting students.

4. A record of distinguished contributions to the choral profession.

Application Instructions:
To apply, visit https://apply.interfolio.com/128495

Application: Upload the following to http://apply.interfolio.com/128495

1. Cover letter

2. Curriculum vitae

3. Links to recent video examples of rehearsals and performances

4. Contact information for three references

To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by December 31, 2023. The committee will continue to accept applications until the position is filled. Hiring is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of a background check. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Southern Methodist University (SMU) will not discriminate in any employment practice, education program, education activity, or admissions on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status. SMU's commitment to equal opportunity includes nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. The Executive Director for Access and Equity/Title IX1 Coordinator is designated to handle inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policies, including the prohibition of sex discrimination under Title IX. The Executive Director/Title IX Coordinator may be reached at the Perkins Administration Building, Room 204, 6425 Boaz Lane, Dallas, TX 75205, 214-768-3601, accessequity@smu.edu. Inquiries regarding the application of Title IX may also be directed to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education.