Kyle Ferrill, baritone, has appeared with some of the nation's finest orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and New York's Orchestra of St. Luke's. Conductors include Stefan Asbury, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Keith Lockhart, Gil Rose, Robert Spano, Kirk Trevor, and John Williams. Recent engagements include the Brahms Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with St. Olaf College Choir and Orchestra, the Oregon Bach Festival , a commercial recording of Ruth Fazal's Awakening with the Slovak National Orchestra in Bratislava, Slovakia, and a reprise of a successful Carnegie Hall commission, David Bruce's Piosenki, in London. In addition to performing, Ferrill teaches voice and vocal pedagogy at the University of Memphis. A native of Indiana, he holds degrees from Butler University and Florida State University, and has also studied at Tanglewood, Songfest, Ravinia, and several sessions in the Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshops.