Loyola Marymount University invites applications for a full-time, tenure track faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Vocal Studies and Opera in its National Association of Schools of Music accredited Bachelor of Arts in Music degree program. The department seeks an active and wide-ranging scholar, teacher, and musician to direct LMU's Sinatra Opera Program and teach its principal credit-bearing class, Opera Scenes/Workshop. The department seeks a candidate with documentation of engaging and critically informed opera rehearsal techniques and artistically distinctive opera performances, the ability to develop tone and blend in ensembles comprising current undergraduate music majors/minors and current non-majors, a breadth of knowledge of operatic repertoire that supports practical application of vocal, acting, and costume/technical design in all style periods, and evidence of potential to develop a national reputation through scholarly and creative research. Other teaching will include Vocal Pedagogy, Diction, and The Vocal Experience (Voice Class in the University Core Curriculum). Ability to teach the Baroque and Classical eras in the upper-division Music History sequence and Alexander Technique desirable; background in piano accompanying also desirable.