Choral Assistant

CSUF Choral Programs are considered some of the largest, most comprehensive, and most acclaimed in the United States. The choirs perform on-campus and throughout southern California, the US, and abroad. To successfully manage the program, each chorus is assigned its own student assistant. Choral assistants manage the hundreds of participants for our many concerts and events on- and off-campus each semester. The chorus assistants manage our off-campus travel and requisite paperwork, distribute and collect hundreds of pieces of sheet music, arrange for individual performing attire (fittings, ordering, alteration), secure on- and off-campus rehearsal and performance venues, arrange for guest instrumentalists, keep track of attendance records, manage voice placement, manage personnel issues, and prepare all scores to serve as the musical assistant to the conductor. Each position requires a person with very specialized skill and in-depth knowledge of choral music. 
CSUF opens our campus and Meng Concert Hall to thousands of local high school and community college singers annually through our popular, highly regarded choral festival programs. The festival manager coordinates these important community events down to the smallest detail. Because CSUF now requires formal documentation and official release of liability for each campus visitor, this job now includes significant liaison with Risk Management staff.

• Serves as University Singers Assistant Conductor
• Responsible for coordinating all performance, rehearsal, annual planning, attire, and logistics, in addition to coordinating travel and tour arrangements as specified by the director.
• Analyzes advanced musical scores and conducts the University Singers in rehearsal and performance.
• Supervises the other choral office assistants.
• Plans and implements all three choral festivals at CSUF and completes appropriate follow-up upon their conclusion.
• CSUF sponsors three major choral festivals every year, at least one per semester. Over 2,000 singers from over 50 high schools and community colleges travel to CSUF’s campus to participate in these high-profile events. These festivals serve as major community outreach events for Cal State Fullerton and are also directly related to our efforts in inspiring the very best musicians to include CSUF in their plans for continuing education. The Choral Assistant organizes the sizeable scope of these all three festivals to ensure they run professionally and successfully.
• Other duties as assigned.

• In-depth knowledge of choral music.
• Prior Choral Conductor experience leading, organizing and conducting choral ensembles.

 
EDUCATION:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in music required.
• Must be admitted as a CSUF graduate student in good standing currently studying choral conducting in Robert Istad’s studio.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Prolonged standing and walking, talking, hearing, pulling, bending, may carry forty (40) pounds of objects/material, maybe exposed to extreme noise level, reach with hands or arms, stoop, kneel, taste or smell. 

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at ascemployment@fullerton.edu or (657) 278-4117. 

A background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position with the ASC. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current ASC employees who apply for the position. 

CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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