Professor Of Voice

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama seeks to appoint exceptional vocal practitioners to join our distinguished and world-renowned Vocal and Opera Faculty.

We are looking for an outstanding educator, passionate about fostering exceptional talent, and dedicated to inspiring artistic individuality. As a teacher, they will promote and facilitate the development of a healthy, expressive and resilient vocal technique.

The ideal candidate will be a highly accomplished vocal practitioner with extensive experience of conservatoire-level or equivalent teaching. Providing one to one voice lessons and class teaching, they will offer pedagogical and artistic mentorship to undergraduate and postgraduate students. They will have specific knowledge and experience of Western classical vocal music and opera and will have the capacity to embrace diverse cultural influences, contemporary trends and new directions for the future of vocal performance; we are looking for someone who will celebrate tradition, encourage innovation and will be broad-minded about career choices available to students.

They will bring creative energy and vision, an awareness of performer health and wellbeing, and a dedication to driving efforts towards diversity, equity and inclusion in our vocal community and curriculum. They will have the ability to connect Guildhall with musical networks at local, national and international levels and will possess the high level of organisational and personal skills necessary to manage a voice studio and to work collaboratively in a busy and thriving musical institution.

If you are committed to nurturing talent and interested in contributing to Guildhall’s pursuit of excellence, we would welcome your application.

For more details, please go to http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/jobs.

To apply, please download and complete the Application Form and the Equal Opportunities Formon here http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/jobs, and send by email to careers@gsmd.ac.uk.

Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24hr answerphone) quoting reference number OOGS9288. A minicom service for the hearing impaired is available on 020 7332 3732.

Closing date for applications is Monday 15th June 2026 at 6.00 pm.

Interviews will be held on Monday, 29 June - Friday, 3 July 2026, there will be a teaching demonstration as part of the interview

Guildhall School welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. We are particularly keen to encourage interest from people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, Black, Asian, and other global majority backgrounds who are currently under-represented at Guildhall School. In recognising the positive value of diversity, we want to better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We are members of the Disability Confident Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who would like to be considered under this scheme and who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. We support and provide adjustments for people with disabilities – if you have a disability and need help with the application process please contact us.

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