MR. JEFF KENSMOE

 

Jeff Kensmoe is the Director of Vocal Studies and Opera/Music Theatre and has been with the music faculty at Wayland Baptist University since the fall of 2005. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, pursued graduate studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, received his Masters of Music degree from the University of Northern Colorado, and is currently a Doctoral candidate in vocal performance at the University of Northern Colorado. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, St. Francis De Sales parochial school in Spooner, Wisconsin, and Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado. Mr. Kensmoe has spent a number of years living and working out of Washington D.C. and New York City where he premiered the roles of Jake Pewlet in Roger Ames’ Amarantha, Amos in Lawrence Moss’ The Queen and the Rebels, and featured vocalist in Grace Ann Adamo Companies’ Drowned Woman of the Sky. He found success bridging the Opera/Musical Theatre gap touring the world with Phillip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach, Europe in the title role of Yeston/Koppit’s Phantom, the United Kingdom as Raoul in The American Phantom, and the United States in Alan Hovhaness’ Killer of Enemies in which he narrated the title role for the Eric Hawkins Dance Company. Some of his Opera and Musical Theatre roles include Papageno in The Magic Flute, Peter in Hänsel and Gretel, Giralimo in The Secret Marriage, Horace Tabor in The Ballade of Baby Doe, Judge in Trial by Jury, Frank Maurant in Street Scene, Lancelot in Camelot, Ace Gruver in Sayonara, Georg in She Loves Me, Raoul in Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera, Michael in I Do! I Do!, and the Shepherd in the off-Broadway production of Bending Toward the Light: a Jazz Nativity. Mr. Kensmoe has also been involved in musical reviews such as Silver Screen Serenade, Fantasy Spectacular, and Americansk Musical Kavalkade, a two person musical review performed in Denmark. He has been a bass-baritone soloist in a number of Masses and Oratorios across the United States, including Bloch’s Sacred Service, Stravinsky’s Les Noce, Brahm’s A German Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Grabmusik and Requiem, Clausen’s a new Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Pauken Messe and Theresien Messe, Schubert’s Mass in G and Mass in E Flat, and Handel’s Messiah. Mr. Kensmoe has appeared on television in the Sondhiem Gala at Carnegie Hall on PBS, in the Guiding Light on CBS and was a guest artist at the New Zealand and former West German Embassies. He has also been involved with various recordings, as well as a Pre-School Power educational video, a Charlie Rudo Sports commercial out of Baltimore, and even a radio/television jingle in his home state of Wisconsin. He currently is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Actor’s Equity Association.

 

 

COURSES: Spring 2008   -- click on course number for links to syllabus, handouts, ect.:

Course	Title	Time	Room
FALL
MUSI 0111	Opera/Musical Theatre	MW 1:45-3:30 F 1:30-4:30	HMC 124
MUSI 4203	Song Literature	TBA	HMC 102
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
MUSI 4103	Opera Literature	TBA	HMC 102
VOIC 1105-4106	Applied Voice	TBA	HMC 102
VOIC 1205-4206	Applied Voice	TBA	HMC 102

 

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