Urgently Require Choral Program Specialist in Princeton, NJ

Job title: Choral Program Specialist

Company: Princeton University

Job description: Overview



The Choral Program Specialist supports the teaching and research of the Director for Choral Activities. The ideal candidate is a skilled and experienced choral musician who is ready to work alongside the Director in all artistic planning, musical preparation and logistical operations for the Princeton University choral department, with a particular focus on the largest choirs - the Glee Club and Chamber Choir. Musical responsibilities may include leading sectional and full rehearsals, running auditions, and leading or co-leading performances. Administrative responsibilities take in rehearsal and concert logistics, the coordination and scheduling of student participants, score editing and typesetting (which requires a high level of independent work utilizing expertise in the field of Choral music and musicianship), music library maintenance, marketing/publicity and social media, contracts and budget management, high school recruitment work, and professional artist liaison and general management for the choral concert series ?The Glee Club Presents?. Occasional duties include the development and upkeep of the choral program?s website, and maintenance and management of the alumni and donor bases.



This is a benefits eligible, two-year term position with the possibility of renewal for two years.



Responsibilities



ARTISTIC WORK

• Repertoire Research: The position requires deep knowledge of the rich canon of Choral repertoire spanning hundreds of years and encompassing many musical styles and genres, as well as a strong connection to rapidly-evolving contemporary choral culture. The Choral Specialist will create programs whose components inform each other and create an educational thread.


• Editions and learning aids: The Choral Specialist will create learning aids and provide individual assistance for students who need extra help; and should be able to produce editions and transcriptions from a variety of sources, including those using antiquated notation systems


• Leading Rehearsals: The positions requires a fluency in Choral conducting, and in musical leadership at the podium. The Choral Specialist should be able plan and implement a rehearsal strategy, to communicate a breadth of musical ideas and contextual information, and to fully engage a large group of students during rehearsal.

• Scheduling: Being able to create a schedule for rehearsals leading to a performance requires an understanding of the repertoire, and of the challenges involved for the ensemble. A good schedule gives all singers enough time to adequately learn and inhabit the music, whilst simultaneously providing artistic stimulation to even the most advanced students.


• Preparing Sheet Music: For sheet music to be rehearsal-ready, it must contain appropriate dynamic markings, indications of tempi, breath markings, articulation notes, and any other instructions and suggestions to aid the musicians? experience.


• Student Management: Princeton?s choral program comprises at least 150 students with a huge diversity of backgrounds, abilities and aspirations, all of whom need separate management. Managing their musical schedules requires a sensitivity to their role in the ensemble, and simultaneously, to the demands of their academic (and extra-curricular) scheduling needs.

• Programs: This position works closely with the Director in creating and/or editing the written content of the program.


• Student Travel (including international tours): The Choral Specialist will assist the Director and coordinate with the student leadership in all logistical aspects of regional, national and international travel. They will also coordinate with local presenters and promoters to ensure that all musical performance needs are advanced.


• Professional Collaborators: Our choral ensembles regularly engage professional artists to work and perform with them; the Specialist must know how a professional artist expects to be treated and make all appropriate arrangements to ensure the most professional and positive experience possible, whilst simultaneously ensuring a productive engagement with our students.

• Marketing, Publicity, Social Media, Website: Creating and managing compelling content to assist with recruiting (for the ensembles, the department, and for Princeton in general) and audience engagement; and maintaining the role of the website for student?s musical learning.


• Enrichment Activities: The Specialist will take responsibility for a carefully-curated schedule of social and enrichment activities for the choral ensembles.


• Alumni Liaison: The specialist will assist the Director in serving the needs of choral alumni (coordinating reunion singing events, distributing ticket offers, concert information etc) as well as managing our annual fund-raising solicitations. Future plans for a more expanded program of alumni choir-singing will involve the Choral Specialist in a conducting role.


• Recruiting: Help to promote the general activity of the choirs, to identify musical potential in students, and to make a convincing case for engaged participation in the Choral program.

• Master's or professional degree


• 3+ years work or equivalent experience


• A wide-ranging musical knowledge and literacy, and a deep familiarity with a broad range of Choral Music.


• Experience in working with choral musicians at the college level with a wide range of abilities, from beginner to expert.


• Basic knowledge of web design and web based graphic design.


• Experience with online spreadsheets and/or data management software.

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