Brian Gill

Brian Gill

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Music Assistant Professor of Vocal Performance/Associate Director for Vocal Pedagogy

Phone: 212 992 9451
Email: brian.gill@nyu.edu

• Music and Performing Arts Professions

Brian Gill (tenor) - Faculty Fellow in Residence (University Hall) and the 2011 winner of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship awarded by The Voice Foundation/NATS - has performed numerous operatic and musical theater roles, concerts, and recitals in the United States and Europe. Performances include Rodolfo (La Bohème), The Magician (The Consul), Lippo Fiorentino (Street Scene), The Witch (Hansel and Gretel), Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors), First Armored Man (Die Zauberflote), Ruiz (Il Trovatore), The Beast (Vittorio Giannini’s Beauty and the Beast), Lord Evelyn Oakleigh (Anything Goes) and Luther Billis (South Pacific). Dr. Gill has sung with Opera Carolina, Colorado Lyric Opera, Colorado Lyric Theater Festival, and Kentucky Opera. Professor Gill also played bass and sang in Disney’s Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Paris, France where he performed with the Grammy-nominated country band, The Moody Brothers (winners of three International Country Music Awards). While in France, Professor Gill performed in the 7eme Festivale Nationale de Rimes et Accords as tenor soloist/guest recitalist. He performed in several other concerts and recitals including a celebration of Armistice Day at Notre Dame Cathedral. In 2002 and 2003, Dr. Gill was a featured soloist in a series of concerts celebrating the life and music of Rosemary Clooney. These concerts were hosted by her brother, Nick Clooney, and were performed with the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra and The Lexington Philharmonic. More recent concerts/recitals include appearances as tenor soloist in Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore, Passion and Madness an evening of the music of Robert Schumann, and a lecture recital at the University of Kentucky at Lexington bringing to light the solo vocal literature of Maximilien d'Ollone (the subject of Dr. Gill's dissertation). Most recently, Dr. Gill has organized and sung in small vocal ensembles for concerts with Grammy-nominated vocalist/composer Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon.

In addition to performing, Dr. Gill has directed operas at Quisisana Regional Theater in Maine, including productions of Puccini’s La Bohème and Bizet’s Carmen. He has also served as Music Director for productions at New York University, including: The Gondoliers, King David, and An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan performed for the G & S Society of New York. Dr. Gill also served as conductor for a piece entitled "Visitation: Waves of Unborn" which appears on legendary jazz great Kenny Werner's latest recording No Beginning, No End (released Summer 2010).

Dr. Gill received his B.M. from the University of North Carolina, his M.M. from the University of Colorado under the tutelage of the late Dr. Barbara Doscher, his D.M.A. from the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and a certificate in Vocology from the University of Iowa under the tutelage of Dr. Ingo Titze. Dr. Gill has taught for Pace University, Eastern Kentucky University, University of Kentucky at Lexington (Graduate Assistant), and the University of Colorado at Boulder's Continuing Education Program. Dr. Gill has served as a Master Clinician/Guest Lecturer for The New York Singing Teachers' Association (Voice Science Masterclass and Comparative Pedagogy), US Army Soldier's Chorus, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Quisisana Regional Theater in Maine, New York Universities department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, The New York Voice Study Group, and OPERA America. Abroad, Dr. Gill has given master classes in France, Portugal, Sweden, and South Korea. Most recently in the realm of Voice Science/Research (summer 2010), he presented papers for The Voice Foundation in Philidelphia, PA and for the fifth bi-annual conference of Physiology and Acoustics of the Singing Voice in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Gill also served as a keynote speaker for the 2nd Annual Voice Symposium: The Singing Voice at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. In the summer of 2011, Dr. Gill presented papers at The Voice Foundation (joint paper with Drs. Johan Sundberg and Filipa La) and The National Center for Voice & Speech (Symposium on Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract Voice Therapy and Diagnostic Techniques). He also presented two invited papers: one for The Acoustical Society of America's meeting in Seattle, WA ("Professional Male Formant Tuning Strategies for the Vowel /a/"), and the other for The Pan-European Voice Conference in Marseille, France ("What Science Brings to Vocal Pedagogy"). In addition to the invited paper in Marseille, Dr. Gill gave a workshop "Are All Lip Trills, Raspberries and Other Semi-occluded Vocal Tract Postures Equally Effective?".

Dr. Gill is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, The College Music Society, and has served on the board of directors for the New York Singing Teachers Association, as well as being Treasurer. His students perform throughout the United States and abroad, including: Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, English National Opera, Sante Fe Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Opera, The Dallas Opera, On and Off Broadway, in Broadway national and international tours, The US Army Soldier’s Chorus, and many regional theaters in the US and abroad.