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Dr. Kevin Eckard
keckard@ucok.edu
Dr. Kevin Eckard, Bass-Baritone, is the newest member of the UCO School of Music voice faculty and directs its acclaimed opera program. Dr. Eckard is a native of South Carolina. He received his DMA from the University of South Carolina, where he was an adjunct faculty member, and his MM in Voice from Indiana University. He also studied vocal pedagogy for two years at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Dr. Eckard has performed frequently throughout the United States, as well as in Italy, Austria and Great Britain. He has performed as a soloist with the International Choir Festival in Chester, England, the Denver Opera, the Colorado Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Carmel and Anderson Symphonies in Indiana, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Augusta Opera and the Opera Carolina. Dr. Eckard has been the featured soloist in productions of Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms’s Requiem, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Among his many operatic credits, he has performed the roles of Boris Godunov in Boris Godunov, Raimondo in Lucia Di Lammermoor, Budd in Albert Herring, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Monterone in Rigoletto, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Micha in The Bartered Bride, Secret Policeman in The Consul, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore and Father in Hansel and Gretel.
Dr. Eckard also performed for the Cimarosa conference in Aversa, Italy, where he performed the role of Melibeo from the opera L’infedelta Fedele – the first time it had been performed since the opera’s premiere in the late 18th century.
Dr. Eckard is also a two-time winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s South Carolina District competition, and has won the Margerite Elfe Erckmann Award for vocal performance.