Introducing our 2020 Guest Adjudicators
Classical Categories
Anne Christopherson -
University of North Dakota
Lyric coloratura soprano, Anne Christopherson enjoys a rewarding career as an educator, performer, and coach. Her “dazzlingly supple voice,” has been acclaimed in many genres in such venues as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Opera di Lucca (Italy), Renmin University (Beijing), the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and the Colorado Music Festival. As a cabaret artist, Cabaret Scenes magazine lauded her “well-honed ability to convey emotion, tenderness, and poignancy…” in her one-woman show, I Hear Music, which premiered at The Duplex cabaret in NYC.
Her “dazzlingly supple voice” has been acclaimed in such roles as Woman # 3 in And the World Goes Round, Cunégonde in Candide, Despina in Così fan tutte, Mary Warren in The Crucible, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Nanetta in Falstaff, Narrator in Into the Woods, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, YumYum in The Mikado, Fastrada in Pippin, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, and Maria in West Side Story.
Anne has been a guest artist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, the Chiara String Quartet, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Boulder Chorale, the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra, the Idaho Falls Opera Theatre, the Crimson Creek Players, the Grand Forks Master Chorale and the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra. She debuted at Alice Tully Hall as soprano soloist with the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra as part of the Mozart Bicentennial Celebration at Lincoln Center. She has also performed in New York City at Don’t Tell Mama Cabaret, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre for Brandon Cutrell & Cohorts as well as his "After Hours: Sandi Patty Tribute," and at The Duplex in her own solo show and several Bound for Broadway showcases, both produced by JD Forslund Productions.
Anne has performed the world premieres of Oddly Beautiful and Three Songs to Texts by Terry Jacobson by North Dakota composer, Michael Wittgraf, and In the beginning, mountains, by Canadian composer, Diana McIntyre. She performed the France premiere of Christopher Berg’s Four Songs on Poems by Vladimir Nabokov at L’Atelier de la Main d’Or with pianist and UND alumna and Grand Prix du Disque winner, Mary Dibbern.
Dr. Christopherson received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Colorado-Boulder where she studied with noted pedagogue, Dr. Barbara Doscher, and noted collaborative pianists, Robert Spillman and Richard Boldrey. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance The Ohio State University. Additional training includes the Academy of Art Song at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada, under the direction of Martin Isepp, and the I Solisti ensemble for the Opera Theatre of Lucca sponsored by the University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music, under the direction of Lorenzo Malfatti. Anne is a top prizewinner of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition, a Metropolitan Opera Competition Regional Finalist, and a finalist in the Jenny Lind Competition.
An Associate Professor of Voice at the University of North Dakota, she also serves as Coordinator of Applied Voice Studies. Her students are active educators and performers in North and South America. Anne has also been a Visiting Professor at the NYU Steinhardt Music, Culture and Human Development and on the voice faculty for the International Music Camp in the Peace Gardens and Sleepy Hollow Theatre & Arts Park. She has taught master classes at Capital Normal University (Beijing), the University of Manitoba-Winnipeg, the University of Texas – San Antonio, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the University of Kentucky, the College of Southern Nevada, Montana State University, and the University of Jamestown. In addition to teaching, Anne has been a music and stage director for musicals and operas as well as a collaborative pianist and coach for choirs and classical and non-classical singers at the high school and collegiate levels as well as community theatre.
An active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) since 2000, Anne has served at local, regional and national levels for over 20 years. She is also the faculty advisor for UND-SNATS, the only student chapter of NATS in North Dakota. Anne was recently certified as a YOGABODY Breathing Coach by the Yoga Teachers College under the direction of founder, Lucas Rockwood.
University of North Dakota
Lyric coloratura soprano, Anne Christopherson enjoys a rewarding career as an educator, performer, and coach. Her “dazzlingly supple voice,” has been acclaimed in many genres in such venues as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Opera di Lucca (Italy), Renmin University (Beijing), the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and the Colorado Music Festival. As a cabaret artist, Cabaret Scenes magazine lauded her “well-honed ability to convey emotion, tenderness, and poignancy…” in her one-woman show, I Hear Music, which premiered at The Duplex cabaret in NYC.
Her “dazzlingly supple voice” has been acclaimed in such roles as Woman # 3 in And the World Goes Round, Cunégonde in Candide, Despina in Così fan tutte, Mary Warren in The Crucible, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Nanetta in Falstaff, Narrator in Into the Woods, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, YumYum in The Mikado, Fastrada in Pippin, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, and Maria in West Side Story.
Anne has been a guest artist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, the Chiara String Quartet, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Boulder Chorale, the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra, the Idaho Falls Opera Theatre, the Crimson Creek Players, the Grand Forks Master Chorale and the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra. She debuted at Alice Tully Hall as soprano soloist with the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra as part of the Mozart Bicentennial Celebration at Lincoln Center. She has also performed in New York City at Don’t Tell Mama Cabaret, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre for Brandon Cutrell & Cohorts as well as his "After Hours: Sandi Patty Tribute," and at The Duplex in her own solo show and several Bound for Broadway showcases, both produced by JD Forslund Productions.
Anne has performed the world premieres of Oddly Beautiful and Three Songs to Texts by Terry Jacobson by North Dakota composer, Michael Wittgraf, and In the beginning, mountains, by Canadian composer, Diana McIntyre. She performed the France premiere of Christopher Berg’s Four Songs on Poems by Vladimir Nabokov at L’Atelier de la Main d’Or with pianist and UND alumna and Grand Prix du Disque winner, Mary Dibbern.
Dr. Christopherson received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Colorado-Boulder where she studied with noted pedagogue, Dr. Barbara Doscher, and noted collaborative pianists, Robert Spillman and Richard Boldrey. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance The Ohio State University. Additional training includes the Academy of Art Song at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada, under the direction of Martin Isepp, and the I Solisti ensemble for the Opera Theatre of Lucca sponsored by the University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music, under the direction of Lorenzo Malfatti. Anne is a top prizewinner of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition, a Metropolitan Opera Competition Regional Finalist, and a finalist in the Jenny Lind Competition.
An Associate Professor of Voice at the University of North Dakota, she also serves as Coordinator of Applied Voice Studies. Her students are active educators and performers in North and South America. Anne has also been a Visiting Professor at the NYU Steinhardt Music, Culture and Human Development and on the voice faculty for the International Music Camp in the Peace Gardens and Sleepy Hollow Theatre & Arts Park. She has taught master classes at Capital Normal University (Beijing), the University of Manitoba-Winnipeg, the University of Texas – San Antonio, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the University of Kentucky, the College of Southern Nevada, Montana State University, and the University of Jamestown. In addition to teaching, Anne has been a music and stage director for musicals and operas as well as a collaborative pianist and coach for choirs and classical and non-classical singers at the high school and collegiate levels as well as community theatre.
An active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) since 2000, Anne has served at local, regional and national levels for over 20 years. She is also the faculty advisor for UND-SNATS, the only student chapter of NATS in North Dakota. Anne was recently certified as a YOGABODY Breathing Coach by the Yoga Teachers College under the direction of founder, Lucas Rockwood.
Allen Henderson - NATS Executive Director
Versatile artist, teacher, arts administrator, and baritone Allen Henderson is currently Executive Director of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the world’s largest professional association of voice teachers, supervising a talented staff in promoting continuing education for voice teachers; publishing a recognized scholarly journal, Journal of Singing; and promoting voice education among a wide array of constituencies, from recreational singers to voice educators and medical doctors. In this position he also serves as administrator for the International Congress of Voice Teachers held every four years at locations around the world. He is also Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University where he teaches voice and foreign language diction. He holds degrees from Carson Newman College (BM) where he was the outstanding graduate in music, The University of Tennessee (MM), and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (DMA) where his minor was in Arts Administration and he was winner of the Corbett-Treigle Opera Competition.
As baritone soloist, Henderson has appeared in concert, opera, and oratorio with opera companies and symphonies around the US. A district winner and regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions, Henderson was winner of the 1995 National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Awards. He can be heard on Aeolian Records release entitled Dimensions and on his world premier recording with guitarist Stanley Yates entitled Shadows featuring works by John Rutter, Michael Fink, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Henderson’s students have graced the stages of venues around the world. They have been associated with leading young artist programs and have been winners of numerous NATS and other national and regional competitions. His students also are gracing the stages of cruise ships, teaching in public schools, colleges, and universities, and even working for TESLA.
Increasingly in demand as a clinician internationally, Henderson has had multiple residencies teaching in Singapore at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and in China. In the United States he was on the faculty of SongFest in 2015, and in 2018 launched a new summer program called the Savannah Voice and Choral Institute in Savannah, Georgia in association with colleagues from Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble. He was honored to serve as a master teacher for the prestigious NATS Intern Program in 2013. In 2018 he was inducted into membership in the American Academy of Teachers of Singing.
In recent years Henderson has conceived of and launched two major national level competitions, the National Music Theater Competition and National Student Auditions sponsored by NATS. He also served as president of the American Traditions Vocal Competition, a unique vocal competition celebrating the diversity of American vocal music currently in its 26th year.
As an author and creator, Henderson conceived of and is executive editor of the “So You Want to Sing…” series published by Rowman and Littlefield. Twenty volumes have been published in the critically successful series. Henderson is also the originator of the term “Vocapedia” and developed a new online resource that brings together a trusted and vetted collection of resources for singers and voice educators at www.vocapedia.info. Additionally, he has published articles in Choral Journal, Creator Magazine, and has a regular column in Inter Nos.
As a church musician, Henderson has served churches in Tennessee, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Georgia and recently retired as Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Statesboro, Georgia.
Versatile artist, teacher, arts administrator, and baritone Allen Henderson is currently Executive Director of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the world’s largest professional association of voice teachers, supervising a talented staff in promoting continuing education for voice teachers; publishing a recognized scholarly journal, Journal of Singing; and promoting voice education among a wide array of constituencies, from recreational singers to voice educators and medical doctors. In this position he also serves as administrator for the International Congress of Voice Teachers held every four years at locations around the world. He is also Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University where he teaches voice and foreign language diction. He holds degrees from Carson Newman College (BM) where he was the outstanding graduate in music, The University of Tennessee (MM), and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (DMA) where his minor was in Arts Administration and he was winner of the Corbett-Treigle Opera Competition.
As baritone soloist, Henderson has appeared in concert, opera, and oratorio with opera companies and symphonies around the US. A district winner and regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions, Henderson was winner of the 1995 National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Awards. He can be heard on Aeolian Records release entitled Dimensions and on his world premier recording with guitarist Stanley Yates entitled Shadows featuring works by John Rutter, Michael Fink, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Henderson’s students have graced the stages of venues around the world. They have been associated with leading young artist programs and have been winners of numerous NATS and other national and regional competitions. His students also are gracing the stages of cruise ships, teaching in public schools, colleges, and universities, and even working for TESLA.
Increasingly in demand as a clinician internationally, Henderson has had multiple residencies teaching in Singapore at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and in China. In the United States he was on the faculty of SongFest in 2015, and in 2018 launched a new summer program called the Savannah Voice and Choral Institute in Savannah, Georgia in association with colleagues from Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble. He was honored to serve as a master teacher for the prestigious NATS Intern Program in 2013. In 2018 he was inducted into membership in the American Academy of Teachers of Singing.
In recent years Henderson has conceived of and launched two major national level competitions, the National Music Theater Competition and National Student Auditions sponsored by NATS. He also served as president of the American Traditions Vocal Competition, a unique vocal competition celebrating the diversity of American vocal music currently in its 26th year.
As an author and creator, Henderson conceived of and is executive editor of the “So You Want to Sing…” series published by Rowman and Littlefield. Twenty volumes have been published in the critically successful series. Henderson is also the originator of the term “Vocapedia” and developed a new online resource that brings together a trusted and vetted collection of resources for singers and voice educators at www.vocapedia.info. Additionally, he has published articles in Choral Journal, Creator Magazine, and has a regular column in Inter Nos.
As a church musician, Henderson has served churches in Tennessee, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Georgia and recently retired as Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Statesboro, Georgia.
Katherine Jolly, Oberlin Conservatory
Soprano Katherine Jolly is an Associate Professor of Music (Voice) at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has appeared in leading
coloratura and soubrette roles in multiple seasons with companies including
Opera Theatre Saint Louis, Houston Grand Operaco., Florida Grand Opera, New
York City Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, American Lyric
Theatre and Piedmont Opera, appearing with conductors including George
Manahan, Stephen Lord, Michael Christie, Thomas Wilkins, Stuart Robinson, and Jerry Steichen. She has recently performed with the Phoenix Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, the Evansville Philharmonic, Northwest Florida Symphony, Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra, Chamber Project STL, Bach Society of Saint Louis and the Kingsbury Ensemble. Preach Sister, Preach, a recording of new works by composers Evan Williams, Katherine Bodor, and Evan Mack was released to rave reviews on PARMA records in 2019, with pianist Emily Yap Chua. Upcoming appearance include performances with Omaha Symphony, Lima Symphony and the Kingsbury Ensemble.
Dr. Jolly received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where she
studied with Barbara Honn and Thomas Baresel. As certified yoga teacher with research background in music performance anxiety, she has presented workshops on yoga, singing, and performance anxiety at the Voice Foundation Symposium, Performing Arts Medical Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the National Percussion Pedagogy Conference, the College Music Society, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Mindfulness Institute, IU Jacobs School of Music Know Your Voice workshop, and is a frequent guest clinician with organizations including the
Schmidt Foundation, Opera Theatre Saint Louis’s Spring Training program, NATS, and Arts Bridge. In addition to her Metropolitan Opera National Council Award, she has been the recipient of awards from the George London Foundation, Opera Theatre Saint Louis, and the McAllister Foundation, as well as grants from the Mellon Foundation and Indiana University. Dr. Jolly was formerly on faculty at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and Saint Louis University.
Soprano Katherine Jolly is an Associate Professor of Music (Voice) at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has appeared in leading
coloratura and soubrette roles in multiple seasons with companies including
Opera Theatre Saint Louis, Houston Grand Operaco., Florida Grand Opera, New
York City Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, American Lyric
Theatre and Piedmont Opera, appearing with conductors including George
Manahan, Stephen Lord, Michael Christie, Thomas Wilkins, Stuart Robinson, and Jerry Steichen. She has recently performed with the Phoenix Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, the Evansville Philharmonic, Northwest Florida Symphony, Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra, Chamber Project STL, Bach Society of Saint Louis and the Kingsbury Ensemble. Preach Sister, Preach, a recording of new works by composers Evan Williams, Katherine Bodor, and Evan Mack was released to rave reviews on PARMA records in 2019, with pianist Emily Yap Chua. Upcoming appearance include performances with Omaha Symphony, Lima Symphony and the Kingsbury Ensemble.
Dr. Jolly received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where she
studied with Barbara Honn and Thomas Baresel. As certified yoga teacher with research background in music performance anxiety, she has presented workshops on yoga, singing, and performance anxiety at the Voice Foundation Symposium, Performing Arts Medical Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the National Percussion Pedagogy Conference, the College Music Society, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Mindfulness Institute, IU Jacobs School of Music Know Your Voice workshop, and is a frequent guest clinician with organizations including the
Schmidt Foundation, Opera Theatre Saint Louis’s Spring Training program, NATS, and Arts Bridge. In addition to her Metropolitan Opera National Council Award, she has been the recipient of awards from the George London Foundation, Opera Theatre Saint Louis, and the McAllister Foundation, as well as grants from the Mellon Foundation and Indiana University. Dr. Jolly was formerly on faculty at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and Saint Louis University.
Musical Theater Categories
Mandy Jiran - Oklahoma University
Assistant Professor of Voice in the Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma, Mandy Jiran is an active teacher, music director, and performer. She’s had the privilege of working with students that have gone on to Broadway, National Tours, Regional and stock theatres all over the country. Mandy’s professional credits include Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Kansas City Starlight Theatre, Casa Mañana, Great Plains Theatre Festival, and the Main St. Theatre. She is a frequent soloist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, most recently co-starring with Tony nominee, Max Von Essen in the Philharmonic’s The Christmas Show. She has worked on new musical theatre works with Adam Gwon and Julia Jordan, the late Claibe Richardson and Stephen Cole, and musical theatre colleague Shawn Churchman and NYU faculty Frank Schiro.
Her music director credits include Legally Blonde and A Christmas Carol at the University of Oklahoma and numerous productions at the Sooner Theatre and Lyric Theatre’s Thelma Gaylord Academy. She has presented musical theatre workshops and master classes at the Orange County School of the Arts, Washington Thespians, Moonifieds, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mandy is a member of PAVA, VASTA, NYST, and MTEA.
Assistant Professor of Voice in the Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma, Mandy Jiran is an active teacher, music director, and performer. She’s had the privilege of working with students that have gone on to Broadway, National Tours, Regional and stock theatres all over the country. Mandy’s professional credits include Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Kansas City Starlight Theatre, Casa Mañana, Great Plains Theatre Festival, and the Main St. Theatre. She is a frequent soloist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, most recently co-starring with Tony nominee, Max Von Essen in the Philharmonic’s The Christmas Show. She has worked on new musical theatre works with Adam Gwon and Julia Jordan, the late Claibe Richardson and Stephen Cole, and musical theatre colleague Shawn Churchman and NYU faculty Frank Schiro.
Her music director credits include Legally Blonde and A Christmas Carol at the University of Oklahoma and numerous productions at the Sooner Theatre and Lyric Theatre’s Thelma Gaylord Academy. She has presented musical theatre workshops and master classes at the Orange County School of the Arts, Washington Thespians, Moonifieds, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mandy is a member of PAVA, VASTA, NYST, and MTEA.
Frank Ragsdale, Miami University
Dr. Frank Wayne Ragsdale earned degrees from Atlantic Union College, The Longy School of Music, and the University of Miami. He has performed in opera, oratorio, musical theatre, and recitals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and Central America where, for three consecutive years, he was invited by the U.S. Embassies of Costa Rica and Honduras to give recital tours and master classes. He has performed in such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Cairo Opera House, Mechanics Hall, Notre Dame, San Marco di Venizia, and St. Martin-in-the-fields. Dr. Ragsdale’s students have sung with Houston Grand Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, Opera Omaha, Glimmerglass, Florida Grand Opera, and Utah Festival Opera. They have been signed by agents and been hired by some of the top theaters in the country like Lincoln Center (Broadway), Longacre Theater (Broadway) Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, Forestburgh Playhouse, Casa Mañana, Dallas Theater Center, Clinton Area Showboat Theater, and have been a part of national tours, cruise ships, and theme park entertainment. They have won competitions all across the country with NATS, Classical Singer, Lotte Lenya, Crescendo, Utah Festival International Opera Competition, and the districts and regions of the MET Council Auditions. Dr. Ragsdale is the chair of the Department of Vocal Performance at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and the NATS National Musical Theatre Competition Coordinator and on the NATS National Advancement Committee.
Dr. Frank Wayne Ragsdale earned degrees from Atlantic Union College, The Longy School of Music, and the University of Miami. He has performed in opera, oratorio, musical theatre, and recitals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and Central America where, for three consecutive years, he was invited by the U.S. Embassies of Costa Rica and Honduras to give recital tours and master classes. He has performed in such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Cairo Opera House, Mechanics Hall, Notre Dame, San Marco di Venizia, and St. Martin-in-the-fields. Dr. Ragsdale’s students have sung with Houston Grand Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, Opera Omaha, Glimmerglass, Florida Grand Opera, and Utah Festival Opera. They have been signed by agents and been hired by some of the top theaters in the country like Lincoln Center (Broadway), Longacre Theater (Broadway) Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, Forestburgh Playhouse, Casa Mañana, Dallas Theater Center, Clinton Area Showboat Theater, and have been a part of national tours, cruise ships, and theme park entertainment. They have won competitions all across the country with NATS, Classical Singer, Lotte Lenya, Crescendo, Utah Festival International Opera Competition, and the districts and regions of the MET Council Auditions. Dr. Ragsdale is the chair of the Department of Vocal Performance at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and the NATS National Musical Theatre Competition Coordinator and on the NATS National Advancement Committee.
Kevin Wilson, Boston Conservatory
Kevin Wilson joined Boston Conservatory's voice faculty in 2008 and is head of vocal pedagogy. He teaches applied voice for musical theater and vocal performance, as well as the courses Structure and Function of the Singing Mechanism, Vocal Pedagogy, Applied Teaching Practicum, and Foundations of Voice Technique. He also serves as director of the Conservatory's Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop.
As a vocal pedagogue, diagnostician, and rehabilitator, Wilson is dedicated to voice habilitation and securing the voice through a sustainable, flexible technique. As a result, his students have performed in venues ranging from the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, and the Oregon, Carmel, and Charlotte Bach festivals, to Broadway’s Hamilton, Cats, Beetlejuice, A Bronx Tale, The Band's Visit, On Your Feet, Beautiful, Kinky Boots, The Lion King, Gigi, Rocky, Mamma Mia!, Once, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Doctor Zhivago, Cinderella, Avenue Q, Evita, Aladdin, and numerous national tours and regional theaters. His students have been finalists and winners in the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra competition, Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Classical Singer Competition Grand Finals (classical and musical theater), the NATS Boston/National Voice Competitions, and have received multiple prestigious regional nominations and awards for performance.
Wilson is a sought-after clinician, adjudicator, and master teacher, and has given master classes and lectures on vocal health and musical theater and classical pedagogies throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has presented at the NATS National Conference, Pan European Voice Conference, American Choral Directors Association, Classical Singer, the Southwest American Choral Directors Association conference, and at universities throughout the United States and Europe. Most recently he has given master classes and guest taught at New England Conservatory, University of Miami, New York University, Arizona State University, University of the Arts, and San Francisco Conservatory. He serves as a peer editor for various trade journals in voice and pedagogy and has been published in Training Commercial Contemporary Singers (2019), Billboard magazine (2013), and in 2019, the National Association for Teachers of Singing named him a master teacher for the prestigious voice intern program.
Wilson earned an M.M. in vocal pedagogy from New England Conservatory and a B.M. in vocal performance from the University of Central Oklahoma. He has completed additional studies in voice at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, in speech anatomy and physiology at Boston University's Sargent College, and in voice and speech with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Kristin Linklater
In addition to his teaching at the Conservatory, Wilson teaches graduate vocal pedagogy at Boston University. He was previously on the voice faculty at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Marymount Manhattan College. He maintains private voice studios online and in Boston and New York City.
Kevin Wilson joined Boston Conservatory's voice faculty in 2008 and is head of vocal pedagogy. He teaches applied voice for musical theater and vocal performance, as well as the courses Structure and Function of the Singing Mechanism, Vocal Pedagogy, Applied Teaching Practicum, and Foundations of Voice Technique. He also serves as director of the Conservatory's Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop.
As a vocal pedagogue, diagnostician, and rehabilitator, Wilson is dedicated to voice habilitation and securing the voice through a sustainable, flexible technique. As a result, his students have performed in venues ranging from the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, and the Oregon, Carmel, and Charlotte Bach festivals, to Broadway’s Hamilton, Cats, Beetlejuice, A Bronx Tale, The Band's Visit, On Your Feet, Beautiful, Kinky Boots, The Lion King, Gigi, Rocky, Mamma Mia!, Once, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Doctor Zhivago, Cinderella, Avenue Q, Evita, Aladdin, and numerous national tours and regional theaters. His students have been finalists and winners in the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra competition, Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Classical Singer Competition Grand Finals (classical and musical theater), the NATS Boston/National Voice Competitions, and have received multiple prestigious regional nominations and awards for performance.
Wilson is a sought-after clinician, adjudicator, and master teacher, and has given master classes and lectures on vocal health and musical theater and classical pedagogies throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has presented at the NATS National Conference, Pan European Voice Conference, American Choral Directors Association, Classical Singer, the Southwest American Choral Directors Association conference, and at universities throughout the United States and Europe. Most recently he has given master classes and guest taught at New England Conservatory, University of Miami, New York University, Arizona State University, University of the Arts, and San Francisco Conservatory. He serves as a peer editor for various trade journals in voice and pedagogy and has been published in Training Commercial Contemporary Singers (2019), Billboard magazine (2013), and in 2019, the National Association for Teachers of Singing named him a master teacher for the prestigious voice intern program.
Wilson earned an M.M. in vocal pedagogy from New England Conservatory and a B.M. in vocal performance from the University of Central Oklahoma. He has completed additional studies in voice at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, in speech anatomy and physiology at Boston University's Sargent College, and in voice and speech with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Kristin Linklater
In addition to his teaching at the Conservatory, Wilson teaches graduate vocal pedagogy at Boston University. He was previously on the voice faculty at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Marymount Manhattan College. He maintains private voice studios online and in Boston and New York City.
