Assistant Professor - Choral Conductor

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No.1 among institutions without a medical school.

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1. Students are our top priority.
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About the School of Music at Georgia Institute of Technology

Music is part of what it means to be at Georgia Tech and has been since 1906.

We take music and technology to their limits. Our students build musical and technical education from the ground up in our Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. program in Music Technology. We have ensembles for every level and style of musical interest.

Academic Programs

Our students cultivate their musicianship while learning engineering, computing, psychology, and design skills. This helps them envision new ways of creating, performing, and analyzing music. Undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. music technology students work directly with our professors to develop new technologies that redefine how we create, consume, and define music.

Ensembles

Our ensembles unite students from every major at Georgia Tech. Each of our ensembles is composed of a distinct group of intelligent, hardworking students with a passion for music. Our ensemble directors are well respected in their fields, and are adept at choosing engaging, enjoyable pieces of music for each semester concerts.

Atlanta, GA

The School of Music (https://music.gatech.edu) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position in Music (Choral Conducting). Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching and mentoring of students.

• Primary responsibilities include conducting two Georgia Tech choral ensembles and providing excellent choral instruction of a wide variety of musical styles and traditions while emphasizing vocal health.
• The successful candidate will likely conduct the Chamber Choir and Glee Club but may be asked to conduct other ensembles in addition to or in place of those.
• The successful candidate will be able to work collaboratively with other ensemble directors when there are joint performance opportunities. In addition, the successful candidate is an active professional who demonstrates leadership and engagement within the choral community. Choral directors with interests and success in other creative research practices are encouraged to apply.

A doctoral degree in any music field.

Preferred candidates will have:

• At least three years of experience leading vocal ensembles.
• Knowledge and ability to teach a wide variety of vocal genres and styles.
• The ability to teach and mentor a distinct student body.
• The ability to engage students in experiential learning activities and pedagogy that support student success.

Additionally,

• An Active agenda as a creative artist, in composition, performance, production, curation, or other musically creative areas. Ideally, a documented history of creative activity and success, as well as ambitions for future high impact work.
• An active scholarly agenda in any music or music-related field, including the humanities, the sciences, or engineering. Ideally, a documented history of scholarly presentation and publication, as well as ambitions for future high impact work. Vocal production and health sciences would be particularly relevant.
• Interest, knowledge, and/or experience related to music styles which are historically underrepresented in academic music making, including non-Western music's, Latin-American music's, or Native-American music's, whether folk or classical in nature.
• Either creative, scholarly, pedagogical, or performance agendas which intersect with developments in music technology, engineering, and science. Potential to engage with faculty and students doing research and development in the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology.
• Ability to incorporate or teach existing music technologies in the classroom or the concert hall, including hardware (microphones, MIDI devices, etc.) and software (Max, Pd, Ableton Live, etc.)

Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of creative and/or scholarly interest, up to 5 concert programs that highlight versatile programming in a range of musical styles; and two video links of the candidate conducting a choir (one performance and one rehearsal) of contrasting styles. Please upload the videos, camera facing conductor, to any platform of your choice without password protection. (Please make sure the videos are available through May 2025), and the names and contact information for at least three references. Application materials should be submitted as PDF files.

Requests for information may be directed to Chaowen Ting at Chaowen.ting@music.gatech.edu.

Applications will be considered beginning December 1, 2024, but the search will continue until the positions are filled.

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The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening.