Assistant or Associate Professor; nine-month tenure-track appointment beginning August 1, 2025. Salary and fringe benefits are competitive and commensurate with rank and experience.

The University of Tennessee's Natalie L. Haslam College of Music is seeking an experienced stage director to provide leadership to the University?s storied opera program.  In collaboration with the Music Director/Co-Instructor of the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, the UTOT Director oversees multiple aspects of the opera program. Primary responsibilities may include:  producing and directing two fully-staged operas during the academic year, management of the opera budget, teaching a graduate level course on stagecraft/acting; providing structured dramatic technical training at the undergraduate and graduate level, and participating in student preparation of professional, educational, and community outreach events.

The Director of Opera Theatre also participates as a member of the voice area faculty. This includes recruiting students and participating in the College of Music audition and selection process. Maintaining a national/international professional profile as a director of opera, through continued research and creative activity, is expected.

Web Page: music.utk.edu  

The University of Tennessee Natalie L. Haslam College of Music offers a broad and comprehensive professional music program at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music. The College has approximately 60 faculty members and approximately 350 music majors. 

General Information:

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the state?s flagship research institution, a campus of choice for outstanding undergraduates, and a premier graduate institution. As a land-grant university, it is committed to excellence in learning, scholarship, and engagement with society. In all its activities, the university aims to advance the frontiers of human knowledge and enrich and elevate society. Knoxville?s cultural resources include a symphony orchestra, an opera company, a professional jazz orchestra, theatrical productions, ballet and modern dance, art galleries, and museums. Within an hour?s drive is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with its scenic beauty and wide variety of recreational activities, plants, and wildlife. The Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee encourages candidates who have the ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the access and engagement goals of the University.

Required:  Master?s Degree, Artist Diploma, or their equivalents in professional experience. Experience managing budgets and overseeing theatrical productions. Demonstrated commitment to training young artists in stagecraft and the dramatic arts.  Substantial experience as an opera director.

Preferred: Experience working in a university, conservatory or with Young Artist programs.

Candidates for the rank of Assistant Professor must:
Meet the qualifications for being an Assistant Professor within UTK?s faculty handbook and the NLH College of Music bylaws.  A degree granted by date of appointment. 

Candidates for the rank of Associate Professor must: 
Meet the qualifications for being an Associate Professor within UTK?s faculty handbook and the NLH College of Music bylaws; among these qualifications include normally having served as an assistant professor for at least 5 years and having served as mentor to junior faculty.

Review of applications will begin on November 11, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.  Applicants should send a letter of application, 3 current letters of recommendation (written within the last 12 months), a list of 3-5 references (including title, email address and phone number), a curriculum-vitae, and links to videos of representative work.  Submit all materials via our application system in Interfolio. Send any questions to czuber@utk.edu.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and admission without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, and parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. In accordance with the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the University of Tennessee affirmatively states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in its education programs and activities, and this policy extends to employment by the university. Requests for accommodations of a disability should be directed to the Office of Equal Opportunity and Accessibility, 1840 Melrose Avenue Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-3560 or eoa@utk.edu or (865)974-2498. Inquiries and charges of violation of Title VI (race, color and national origin), Title IX (sex), Section 504 (disability), the ADA (disability), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (age), sexual orientation, or veteran status should be directed to the Office of Investigation & Resolution 216 Business Incubator Building 2450 EJ. Chapman Drive Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 or (865)974-0717 or investigations@utk.edu.

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