St John’s College is a world-class Christian, African school situated on a magnificent heritage campus in Houghton, Johannesburg, offering quality education from Pre-Primary to Post-Matric. The school has an outstanding academic record, entering candidates for the IEB and Cambridge A Level examinations.

The combined choirs of the Preparatory School and College lead the worship during the weekly sung Mass. The choirs also sing regularly at services where major liturgical works feature, such as Gaudy Day, the Remembrance Day service and the traditional Carol Service. The choir leads the singing at the termly Choral Evensong. Major choral works such as Bach’s St John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, and Handel’s Messiah with orchestra and professional soloists have been performed in recent years. The choir’s repertoire includes a significant number of African choruses, which are sung at the weekly Mass, led by our Head of African Music.

The successful candidate should have:

•  an appropriate tertiary qualification in Music, specialising in choral conducting, or choirmaster’s licentiate or equivalent.
  • practical knowledge of voice production and singing technique.
•  experience in training treble and changing male voices in a choral situation.
•  piano or organ playing skills of at least a Grade 7 level and, therefore, the skill to rehearse the choir from the keyboard.
•  excellent sight-singing and piano sight-playing skills.
•  a working knowledge of sacred and contemporary choralmusic repertoire.
•  previous experience conducting regular services with choirs singing anthems in an Anglican liturgical setting.
•  experience rehearsing with an orchestra and choir in preparation for performances of orchestral masses and choral concert works.
•  experience in teaching music theory, music as a subject (IEB) vocal and instrumental teaching, which will be considered an advantage.