DR. Brian Kuhnert

 

Dr. Brian Kuhnert is an Assistant Professor of Voice and the Director of Opera/Music Theatre at Wayland Baptist University since joining the faculty in 2010.  Dr. Kuhnert received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Voice Performance at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, TX before completing his Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance at Texas Tech University in 2011.  Through his studies, he has worked with Gerald Dolter and Cloyce Kuhnert, and he has participated in numerous master classes with singers from both the United States and Europe and the acclaimed vocal pedagogue Richard Miller and coach Joan Dornemann. 

Dr. Kuhnert has appeared in professional opera companies across the United States in productions of The Bartered Bride (Smetana) as Keçal, Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) as Betto, and Rigoletto (Verdi) as Marullo.  Other roles include Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Frank in Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss), Pooh-Bah in The Mikado (Sullivan), Horace Tabor in The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore), Leporello in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (Mozart), and Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief (Menotti).  This March, Dr. Kuhnert will be performing in the Lubbock Symphony Orchestras concert version of La Traviata (Verdi) as Dottore Grenvil.  Dr. Kuhnert has also appeared in front of thousands of patrons for the last five summers as the principle character Uncle Henry in Paul Green’s outdoor musical drama TEXAS staged in the Palo Duro Canyon.

COURSES:

Course	Title	Time	Room
FALL
MUSI 0111	Opera/Musical Theatre	MW 1:45-3:30 F 1:30-4:30	HMC 124
VOIC 1105-4106	Applied Voice	TBA	HMC 102
VOIC 1205-4206	Applied Voice	TBA	HMC 102
SPRING
MUSI 0111	Opera/Musical Theatre	MW 1:45-3:30 F 1:30-4:30	HMC 124

VOIC 1105-4106	Applied Voice	TBA	HMC 102
VOIC 1205-4206	Applied Voice	TBA	HMC 102

 

 

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