Kurt-Alexander
Zeller, tenor, is Director
of Vocal Activities
and Opera at
Clayton College &
State University and
has performed in
opera and musical
theatre, oratorio,
early music, and
recital throughout North America and much of Europe. He holds degrees in Voice Performance and in Theatre from Southern Methodist University and a doctorate, with major studies in voice performance, musicology, and opera directing, from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, where he was a founding member of CCM's Early Music Lab. For several seasons, he was a member of the performance comp. of the Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival and appeared often with its Terra Nova Consort. Dr. Zeller produced programs for EMGO throughout the 1990s and has prepared performance versions of Haydn's L'infedelta delusa and Mozart's La finta giardiniera for the Portland Chamber Orchestra. He is an active writer and lecturer on music, often introducing ASO programs and concerts at Spivey Hall, and is Program Annotator for the Salem (OR) Chamber Orchestra. He is passionately attached to early music (the 17th century is his favorite) but lives by the artistic credo that “to specialize is to brush one tooth.”