Dr. Kevin Smith

Voice

Dr. Kevin Thomas Smith holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in voice performance from the University of Kansas, where he studied with John Stephens. He performed a number of opera and musical theater roles at the university, including Flute in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oronte in Handel’s Alcina, Don Basilio in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, the Norwin Spokesman in the Sherman Brothers’ Over Here, and Mr. One in Joshua Schmidt’s Adding Machine: A Musical.

While a student, Kevin participated in several world premieres, including two recitals of art songs by student composers and a new cantata by Timothy Jon Tharaldson, Floretum, which premiered at Benedictine College in 2021.

In 2020, Kevin sang the role of Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. He has also been a member of LOKC chorus since 2014.

In the summer of 2015, Kevin joined the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center, singing Bushy in The Ballad of Baby Doe and the roles of Ethan Krusemark and Johnny Favorite in a workshop of Falling Angel, a new opera by J. Mark Scearce. In 2014, Kevin traveled to Italy as a young artist with Music Academy International, where he sang the title role in Britten’s Albert Herring.

A native of Nebraska, Kevin received Bachelor of Music degrees in voice performance and K-12 vocal music education from Hastings College. In 2016, he returned to Hastings College to sing the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah.