Kevin Burdette is a singer (range: bass) who has worked as a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Teatro Colón, New York City Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Boston Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the Spoleto Festival USA, as well as many regional opera companies including the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opéra de Québec, Chicago Opera Theater, Gotham Chamber Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Toledo Opera, Knoxville Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, and the Lyric Opera of San Antonio.
His concert engagements have included solo work with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (with Kent Nagano), Utah Symphony Orchestra (with Keith Lockhart), Nashville Symphony, Boston Baroque, the EOS Orchestra, and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra at venues including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, and San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall.
A recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant awarded by the Shoshana Foundation and the Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf Award, presented by New York City Opera to an artist who demonstrates outstanding dramatic ability, he has been a member of both l'Opéra National de Paris young artists' Program and the San Francisco Opera young artist program.
Burdette received his Masters in Vocal Performance at the Juilliard School, two Bachelor of Arts degrees (B.A. in College Scholars and a B.A. in Music with a minor in history) from the University of Tennessee, and spent a year studying at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. He was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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