Assistant Professor in Voice; Mezzo Soprano or Tenor

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Work type: Tenure-Track Faculty
Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL)
Categories: Education/Training/Instructional Design, Humanities
Department:  - COTA-MUSIC-DIRECTOR

Classification

Title:

AST PROF

Candidates for this rank shall hold the highest degree appropriate to their field or possess equivalent qualifications based on professional experience. A candidate shall be expected to demonstrate successful experience pertinent to the position they are being recommended and have demonstrated qualities relevant to the goals of the academic unit in which they will be employed.

Job Description:

Position: Full-time, 9-month, tenure accruing faculty position

Date of Expected Hire: August 16, 2027

Salary: $61,000-$63,000 with a comprehensive and highly competitive leave and benefits package

The School of Music in the College of the Arts invites applicants for a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in Voice. We seek an accomplished singer with national and/or international visibility who will contribute to the continued success and growth of our BM, BA, MM, and DMA programs in voice. The successful candidate will add their dynamic personality and enthusiasm for teaching to our School’s existing community of outstanding scholars and musicians.

This position will be filled by a mezzo soprano or tenor.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change‑maker.

We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

• Recruit and teach undergraduate and graduate students in applied studio voice.
• Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in related voice subjects.
• Maintain an active national and international profile in performance, research, and/or other creative activities.
• Engage deeply in our learning community, finding innovative ways to connect the arts to discourses in other disciplines.
• Participate in shared governance through service to the School, College and University.
• Contribute to the development and teaching of UF Quest 1 courses, which form a part of the general education requirement in the Humanities. ( https://quest.ufl.edu/ )
• Other courses and service as needed and assigned by the unit director.

SCHOOL OF MUSIC: Organized within the College of the Arts, the School of Music plays an important role in the academic and cultural life of the University, the College’s Creative Campus initiative and the community. The School has 40 full-time and nine adjunct faculty, serving some 200 graduate and 200 undergraduate music majors. Degree programs include B.S., B.A., B.M., M.M., D.M.A., and the Ph.D. in music education, composition, ethnomusicology, and historical musicology.

Program emphases include performance, music education, theory, composition, music history and literature, ethnomusicology, conducting, and sacred music. The School of Music is also home to the UF Bands program, which includes “The Pride of the Sunshine” Gator Marching Band. School of Music facilities include the School of Music Building and Steinbrenner Band Hall, among others. The University of Florida is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music.

For more information, visit www.arts.ufl.edu/music .

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