Choral & Vocal Events | Oklahoma State University

Voice Masterclass with Kevin Wilson

Tuesday, November 5, 2023 | 3:00 - 5:30 PM

McKnight Center for the Performing Arts - Recital Hall

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Kevin Wilson’s teaching is influenced by over 20 years of study of anatomy and physiology, historical pedagogies, voice and speech, and acting. Whether in the voice studio, classroom, or workshop, Kevin’s approach is to help students and teachers “get physical and emotional” with their voice, remove fear from taking risks and making noises, and integrate text with an emotional stimulus from the body. Ultimately, he is most interested in habilitating a sustainable technique that allows a singer to become purely expressive both physically and emotionally in ANY genre. Kevin travels the world as a clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer and gives masterclasses on vocal health, musical theater, and classical pedagogies. He often presents Securing Belt, Mix, and Legit for Musical Theatre, Foundations of Voice Teaching, and Navigating the Filter, teaching how to prepare students to make vocal adjustments for a variety of singing opportunities from Classical to Contemporary Musical Theater.

Kevin serves as a peer editor for various trade journals in voice and pedagogy and has been published in the NATS Journal of Singing (Volume 80, No.2 2023,) Performing in Contemporary Musicals (2022), Training Commercial Contemporary Singers (2019), Billboard magazine (2013). In 2019, the National Association for Teachers of Singing named him a master teacher for the prestigious voice intern program. His current and previous students have appeared in over 40 Broadway productions originating four roles, numerous national tours, regional theaters, and in venues ranging such as the Metropolitan Opera, Boston Lyric, Chicago Lyric, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, and the Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals. His students have been finalists and winners in the Tafelmusik Baroque Competition, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the NATS Boston/National Voice Competitions, and the Classical Singer Competition. They have received multiple prestigious regional nominations and awards for performance.

Kevin joined the Boston Conservatory’s voice faculty in 2008, where he created the Masters of Music in Vocal Pedagogy and the Masters of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy programs. He is currently the director of Vocal Pedagogy and an Associate Professor of Voice. In addition to teaching voice for musical theater and vocal performance students, he teaches Structure and Function of the Singing Mechanism, Vocal Pedagogy, Applied Teaching Practicum, Foundations of Voice Technique, and Cross-Training in the Voice Studio. He is the creative director of the conservatory’s annual Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop, now in its 13th year. Kevin holds a Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music in Voice from the University of Central Oklahoma. He has additional studies in voice at the University of Missouri- Kansas City Conservatory, vocal anatomy and physiology at Boston University Sargent School of Health, and studies in voice and speech with Kristin Linklater and Catherine Fitzmaurice.