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Full time Vocal Arts/Opera and Music Appreciation

Pasadena City College

Job Description

Pasadena City College is hiring a full-time, tenure-track Music Instructor-Vocal Opera and Music Appreciation commencing with the 2023-2024 academic year.

The Pasadena City College Music Department has a longstanding tradition of excellence, including an impressive and comprehensive curriculum for music majors and non-majors in the areas of traditional music, jazz and commercial music and world music. The full-time and adjunct faculty includes leading educators, performers, conductors, composers and scholars who work cooperatively toward student success.

Pasadena City College Opera Workshop has produced over 20 complete operas. Alumni of the opera program have successfully pursued careers as contracted singers in European houses, guest artists in major American and internationally opera houses, and as opera and voice educators.

Complementing the Opera department, Pasadena City College Choral Ensembles are at the forefront of choral music education among California community colleges. Pasadena City College was the first community college to perform at the national ACDA conference. Its choral ensembles have toured nationally and internationally and have collaborated with local and international arts organizations such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the King's Singers and the London Philharmonia.

Pasadena City College is a world-class institution that is respected and supported by its community. Thirty percent of our faculty hold doctoral degrees and many of them are graduates of PCC. Many of our support staff are also graduates of PCC and four-year institutions.

The Academic Senate, Classified Senate, and Management Association are active in the effective shared governance process of the college.

We are committed to helping all students achieve their educational goals, including those of every race, religion, gender, ethnicity, veterans, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community, regardless of background and level of preparation. We are looking for candidates with a commitment to mentoring students from underrepresented demographics in the sciences who can create a welcoming classroom culture and positively engage in our diverse student population.

At Pasadena City College (PCC) we celebrate and respect the racial, social, economic, academic and cultural diversity including students with different ability statuses.


  • We seek candidates whose experience, teaching, and/or service advance anti-racism, anti-oppression, equity, and justice.
  • We welcome candidates whose experiences have facilitated their understanding of traditionally underrepresented racial minority communities.
  • Faculty are expected to have an inclusive stance on mentoring and engagement that incorporates working with historically marginalized populations.
  • We seek candidates who have the desire and ability to create a welcoming classroom culture that positively engages and impacts our racially and socially diverse student population.
  • We seek applications from candidates who can demonstrate experience in teaching and working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and contribute to the College's mission, vision, and core values.

We are committed to achieving equally high outcomes for all students. Successful candidates will share our vision and will work with us to help all students, regardless of background and level of preparation, achieve their educational goals. PCC is a designated Hispanic-serving institution that takes great responsibility in serving our Latinx students while also supporting Black, Asian American and Pacific Islander and Indigenous students towards their educational attainment and economic well-being. Pasadena City College prides itself on faculty contributions through active participation in college-wide governance and the decision-making process.



RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE VOCAL OPERA AND MUSIC APPRECIATION INSTRUCTOR:


  • Direct and produce opera scenes programs and full opera productions
  • Teach and coordinate Music Appreciation classes as a vital component of this full-time position.
  • Teach Beginning and Intermediate Class Voice and Lyric Diction classes
  • Teach music courses such as Opera History, World Music, Musicianship, Music Theory or other music course consistent with the applicant's expertise
  • Recruit vocal students into the music program
  • Collaborate with the choral conductor to develop a comprehensive vocal music program
  • Develop and maintain the choral program's presence in the community
  • Develop and maintain synergy between the opera program the choral, orchestra, and instrumental ensemble programs and the Theater department.
  • Participate in the evaluation, revision, and development of the curriculum
  • Participate with faculty to develop and assess Student Learning Outcomes
  • Undertake the divisional and professional responsibilities of a regular faculty member including college governance, committee service and/or other appropriate activities.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES:


  • Ability to teach movement and acting for singers
  • Ability to teach music appreciation, opera history, lyric diction and class voice
  • Ability to work with vocal studio faculty in further supporting the department's commitment to voice students' technical and artistic development.
  • Versatility in meeting needs of both music and non-music majors, voice and non-voice majors
  • Ability to work collaboratively with full time choral music faculty colleague, adjunct voice faculty, large ensemble directors, other faculty, staff and the community
  • Ability to work collaboratively with drama, theater arts and dance departments
  • Experience in generating and attracting financial resources to support the opera program and its productions
  • Organizational and managerial skills relevant to opera production scheduling
  • Demonstrated proficiency in teaching at the community college level or its equivalent
  • Demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.
  • Willingness to examine and remediate ones instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized student
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Experience and proficiency in current teaching and learning techniques

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