is an in demand voice teacher, academic educator and repertoire coach who has taught and performed across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. His students and clients have performed on Broadway, in national tours and in other professional venues around the world. Kevin is internationally recognized as an authority on musical theatre repertoire and vocal styles and is the founder of the popular theatre voice training website . Thousands of performers and teachers visit the site daily, and his articles have been shared by prestigious organizations such as The Voice Foundation, The National Association of Teachers of Singing, Chicago Lyric Opera, and The Australian Voice Association. He also created the pop/rock vocal repertoire website . Kevin currently serves on the voice faculty at Millikin University and Eastern Illinois University. There, he teaches Applied Voice Lessons, Vocal Pedagogy/Practicum, Belting Technique & Performance, Pop/Rock Vocal Seminar, and Theatre Music Direction.
Kevin was one of the inaugural graduates from the Contemporary Commercial Music Voice Pedagogy program at Shenandoah Conservatory (the first master’s degree program in the United States to incorporate dedicated teacher training for commercial music and musical theatre singing techniques alongside traditional classical voice pedagogy). He was also admitted to the D.M.A. Voice Pedagogy program there and completed coursework in multiple areas. Additionally, Kevin holds a B.M. in Vocal Music Education from Millikin University and completed core B.A. Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences coursework at The University of Colorado Boulder (via their Pre-Speech Language Pathology program). His other professional credentials include Illinois Music Teacher certification, Level III certification in Somatic Voicework™ The Lovetri Method, and a certificate of completion from The Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute.