Adjunct Faculty

University of New Hampshire

17h

About The Position

The Music Department is hiring a Resident Artist (part-time/hourly) to teach voice as well as a weekly studio class. A specialist is needed for this position, to teach private lessons and the studio class to students whose major instrument is voice. This instrument is involved in many department ensembles and, therefore, this position plays a vital role in all department activities. The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry. The University System of New Hampshire is the largest provider of postsecondary education in the Granite State. With approximately 30,000 enrolled students annually and more than 90,000 alumni living in state, the institutions of the University System - the University of New Hampshire - Durham, the University of New Hampshire School of Law, the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Plymouth State University, and Keene State College - have a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of New Hampshire citizens every year.

Requirements

Master’s degree OR established success in voice instruction and performance
Studio teaching experience in voice
Proficiency in teaching across multiple styles of vocal repertoire
Skill as a vocal performer
Demonstrated understanding of voice science and vocal pedagogy
Demonstrated ability as a teacher of voice
Ability to support a genre-expansive repertoire curriculum as appropriate to student needs
Ability to direct Vocal Arts Project with voice faculty colleagues
Ability to teach a course on diction if needed

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or higher
Professional performing experience
Previous studio teaching experience at the collegiate level
Extended training in CCM pedagogy
Experience with best practices and/or recent research in Evidence-Based Vocal Pedagogy