Kevin Vondrak is a conductor and collaborator in Philadelphia. He is currently assistant conductor & artistic associate at the Grammy-winning new music choir The Crossing, where he works to help imagine and support the ensemble’s creative vision. In this role he regularly collaborates on creative projects with leading arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Haarlem Koorbiënnale (Netherlands), Finnish National Opera (Helsinki), Bang on a Can, and the Met Cloisters. He is a key member of The Crossing's recording team, co-producing 5 Grammy-nominated studio albums. His creative voice can be heard directly in The Forest, co-composed with Donald Nally for The Crossing’s first public performance in the COVID-era and featuring Echoes amplification. For The Crossing’s Knee Plays, he created original arrangements of David Byrne’s music for a staged production at University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Center.
He is an award-winning pop a cappella arranger and has worked with over 150 high school, collegiate, and community ensembles. His original arrangement of the Northwestern University alma mater is featured in the university’s 2020 global PSA during nationally televised football broadcasts on ESPN and ABC.
Kevin holds a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Northwestern University, and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to singing with the Chestnut Street Singers, he is a staff singer at St. Mark's Church (Philadelphia, PA) and directs a lively choir of senior citizens at The Beaumont (Bryn Mawr, PA). He lives by the woods in Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, where he enjoys fly fishing and trail running alongside the Wissahickon Creek.
