Kevin Wilson is a master voice teacher, clinician, and 21st-century vocal
pedagogue. His teaching is influenced by over 18+ years of study of
anatomy and physiology, historical pedagogies, voice and speech, and
acting. Kevin joined the Boston Conservatory's voice faculty in 2008 and is
the Director of Vocal Pedagogy and is an Associate Professor of Voice. He
teaches applied voice for musical theater and vocal performance students,
as well as the courses Structure and Function of the Singing Mechanism,
Vocal Pedagogy, and Applied Teaching Practicum. He also serves as
director of the Conservatory's annual Vocal Pedagogy Professional
Workshop and as an instructor in the Musical Theater Dance Intensive and
Vocal/Choral Intensives.
Kevin’s students have performed in venues ranging from the Metropolitan
Opera, Chicago Lyric, New York City Opera, Handel and Haydn Society,
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Oregon and Carmel Bach
Festivals, to off-Broadway and regional theaters and tours throughout the
world. His current and previous students have appeared in
Broadways; Moulin Rouge, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Beautiful, Kinky
Boots, Gigi, Rocky, Mamma Mia, Once, Dr. Zhivago, Hamilton, Lion
King, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, The Bands Visit,
Cinderella, Avenue Q, Evita, School House Rock, and Pipe Dream. As well
as numerous national tours including Once (1st and 2nd National
Tour) Chicago, Camelot, Wicked(1st and 2nd National Tour), Hamilton,
Frozen, On Your Feet, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Mamma Mia, Peter and the
Star Catcher, A Chorus Line, Shrek, Rent, West Side Story, Evita, and
many more. His students appeared in Grease: Live and in the new West
Side Story movie to be released this Fall. His students have been finalists
and winners in the Tafelmusik Baroque Competition, Metropolitan Opera
Auditions, the NATS Boston/National Voice Competitions, and received
multiple prestigious regional nominations and awards for performance.
Kevin travels the world as a clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer and gives
master classes and lectures on vocal health and musical theater and
classical pedagogies. He often lectures on Genre Fluid Singing™ and
Changing the Filter ™ discussing how to prepare students to vocally make
adjustments for a variety of singing opportunities from Classical to
Contemporary Musical Theater. He has presented at National Association
for Teachers of Singing National Conference, and the Pan European Voice
Conference, In addition to over 100 Masterclasses, he has been an artist in
residence with Arizona State University, Columbia College, and Southern
Arkansas University. In 2019 he received the honor of being named Master
Teacher for the prestigious National Association for Teachers of Singing
Intern Program.
He holds a Masters in Vocal Pedagogy from the New England Conservatory
and the Bachelors of Music in Voice from the University of Central
Oklahoma. He continued his music studies at the University of Missouri
Kansas City Conservatory, in vocal anatomy and physiology at Boston
University Sargent School of Health, and studies in voice and speech with
Kristin Linklater and Catherine Fitzmaurice.
In addition to this teaching at Boston Conservatory, he teaches graduate
Vocal Pedagogy at Boston University, voice at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (M.I.T.) and was previously on the voice faculty at the American
Repertory Theater at Harvard, Marymount Manhattan College, and Brown
University. He maintains private studios in Boston and New York City.