A Note from Kevin!

As music director of the Chesapeake Youth Chorale I wish to continue a basis of musical excellence while still challenging the singers both vocally and musically.  With every choral group it is a challenge to find a specific sound.  It is indeed my hope that they CYC and I can find our collective voice. 

A choir, although made up of many voices needs to sound with one voice.  As we continue to grow as a group in our music, let us also grow in our relationships with one another.  The closer we are with one another as friends, the better we will sing as one voice.  So let us have fun, make music and become closer to one another as friends and musicians but most of all let us find the voice of the Chesapeake Youth Chorale!

Kevin's Bio

Kevin Thomas began his undergraduate studies in Music Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the College of Charleston in South Carolina.  Mr. Thomas pursued graduate studies in choral conducting at the University of South Carolina, and subsequently trained under both Robert Paige and Rodney Eichenberger.  He also studied voice at the Oberlin College and Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute with the celebrated Dutch bass-baritone, Max Van Egmond.  

Kevin has sung with the chamber ensemble Capriole in Williamsburg, Virginia, as well as the Virginia Chorale in Norfolk, Virginia.  He made his professional debut as a countertenor singing Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the Virginia Symphony.  After college, Mr. Thomas served as Assistant Music Director at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and performed as a soloist throughout the southeastern United States.  He returned to Delmarva, the area of his childhood home, in 2002. 

Currently, he is Director of Music at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in St. Michaels, Maryland.  He has served as Artistic Director of the Tidewater Chamber Singers (formerly Bach to the Future) based in Easton, Maryland, and as Music Director of the Delaware Choral Society, based in Dover, Delaware.  He maintains an active voice studio in Talbot County, Maryland where he resides.