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Part-Time Lecturer (Voice Teacher)

Required Qualifications

International reputation as an outstanding performer and/or extensive teaching credentials at the graduate and undergraduate level. Expertise in the performance of contemporary music. Ability to teach diction classes in foreign languages as well as repertory courses. Keen understanding of opera and lieder in its cultural context. Dedication to diversity in recruitment.

Responsibilities & Requirements

Faculty will teach voice lessons and diction courses in Italian, French, English, or German, as necessary to graduate and advanced undergraduate students and will supervise graduate teaching assistants teaching voice lessons to undergraduates. Faculty will audition prospective students and attend recitals and juries of current students. Faculty participate in the academic requirements of the doctoral degree, participating in lecture-recital and oral exam committees and commenting on doctoral essays. Some service is required.

Special Notes

This is a non-tenure track position.  FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.  Internal and external search to occur simultaneously. Anticipated Start Date: September 1, 2020.

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The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.

Application Procedure

Those interested in this position should:   

1. Complete the online Applicant Information Survey. Do not submit this survey to the department with your application.  Any questions regarding the survey, please email oide@stonybrook.edu.   

2. Submit a State Employment Application, letter of application explicitly addressing all required and preferred qualifications, CV that includes performance and teaching background including three references, a list of students who are engaged professionally as singers or pedagogues and their affiliations, and links to recordings and/or videos of live performances by clicking Apply or through the Academic Jobs Online application https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14561. Alternately, you may submit your application package to the departmental address or fax below.    

Screening begins on September 23rd but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. 

The performance program at Stony Brook enrolls musicians at a very advanced pre-professional level at the undergraduate, masters and DMA levels. There is a strong emphasis on chamber music and contemporary music. 

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Brenda Harris
Department of Music
3304 Staller Center for the Arts
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5475

Campus Description

Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North Shore.  Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff. SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes 34 public universities among its 62 members.  SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art healthcare in the Long Island region. SBU also manages and performs joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute.  Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New York, the Humanities Institute, and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, SBU sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Official Job Title: Part-Time Lecturer (Voice Teacher)
REF#: F-10077-19-09
Campus: Stony Brook West Campus
Department: Music - College of Arts and Sciences
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Posting Start Date: 09/12/2019
Posting End Date: 11/12/2019

Applications for this position must be received, as specified in the Application Procedure Section, no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on 11/12/2019, unless specifically noted otherwise in the Special Notes Section.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Stony Brook University is committed to excellence in diversity and the creation of an inclusive learning, and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information,veteran status and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

If you need a disability-related accommodation, please call the university office of institutional diversity and equity at (631)632-6280.

Job Category: Faculty and Librarian
Posting Date: 09/12/2019