Kevin Wilson joins the Wanda Bass School of Music in the Fall of 2024. A native of Oklahoma, he comes to Oklahoma City University after spending 16 years as a Professor of Voice and Director of Vocal Pedagogy at the Boston Conservatory. While at the conservatory, he established the Master of Music degree in Vocal Pedagogy, the Master of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy, and the annual Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop.

His students have appeared in over 40 Broadway productions, originating six roles, as well as in numerous national tours, regional theaters, and prestigious venues 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 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Tafelmusik Baroque Competition, NATS Boston and National Voice Competitions, and the Classical Singer Competition. They have also received multiple nominations and awards, including Tony, Grammy, and Daytime Emmy awards.

Mr. Wilson travels the world as a clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer, giving 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, which all teach how to prepare students to make vocal adjustments for a variety of singing opportunities from Classical Voice to Contemporary Musical Theater. He has conducted masterclasses and guest lectures at several prestigious institutions, including the San Francisco Conservatory, New York University, New England Conservatory, Mannes, Columbia University, University of Miami, Arizona State University, University of Southern California, Brown University, and Harvard University. He has presented at the National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS), the Voice Foundation, the Pan-European Voice Conference, and the Southwest American Choral Directors Association. In addition to his teaching activities, Mr. Wilson serves as the Vice President for Workshops with the NATS National Board of Directors.

In 2009, he was recognized as a Master Teacher by NATS for the prestigious intern program, and in 2023, he was deemed a Recognized Vocologist by the Pan-American Vocology Association. He serves as a peer editor for various trade journals in voice and pedagogy and has published in The Oxford Handbook of Vocal Pedagogy (Oxford 2025), the NATS Journal of Singing (JOS Nov. 2023), Performing in Contemporary Musicals (Routledge 2022), and Training Commercial Contemporary Singers (Compton 2019).

Mr. Wilson 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 pursued additional studies in voice at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory and in vocal anatomy and physiology at Boston University Sargent School of Health. He has studied voice and speech with Kristin Linklater and Catherine Fitzmaurice. He maintains private voice studios in Oklahoma City and New York City.