Brian Gill

Brian Gill

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

Music Assistant Professor of Vocal Performance

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

• Music and Performing Arts Professions

Brian Gill (tenor) 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).

In addition to performing, Professor 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.

Professor 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, New York Universities department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, The New York Voice Group, and Opera America.

Dr. Gill is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, The College Music Society, and serves 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, 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.