Kevin Vondrak is a conductor and collaborator in Philadelphia.

He is assistant conductor & artistic associate at the Grammy-winning new music choir The Crossing, where he works alongside Donald Nally to help imagine and support the ensemble’s creative vision. As a recording producer with Donald Nally and Paul Vazquez, he won the 2023 Grammy Award, Best Choral Performance for The Crossing’s album Born, and has worked on the producing team of six Grammy-nominated Crossing albums. He plays a key role in preparing The Crossing’s productions at home and on the road, including international tours of Aniara to the Haarlem Choral Biennale (Netherlands), Finnish National Opera (Helsinki), Berwaldhallen (Stockholm), an annual residency at Big Sky Choral Initiative (Montana), and The Crossing’s New York Philharmonic debut in Fire in my mouth, in which he conducted a preview performance at the Tenement Museum and served as auxiliary conductor at David Geffen Hall under Jaap van Zweden. 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 (Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, PA, October 2020) and featuring Echoes amplification. For The Crossing’s Knee Plays, he created original arrangements of David Byrne’s music for a staged production at the Annenberg Center. In addition to his artistic and production work, Kevin curates the unique brand and voice of The Crossing in marketing, social media, and web.

He currently serves as Interim Choirmaster at St. Mark's Church in Philadelphia, leading the Parish Choir in weekly High Choral Mass, Feast Days, and monthly Evensong service while also assisting the Chorister program. Highlights for Spring 2024 include premieres of David Hurd’s Saint Mark Mass, Benjamin C.S. Boyle’s canticle setting I will sing unto the Lord, Jeffrey Smith’s The Ohio (Evening) Service, and Joshua Hartman’s Missa Brevis. Prior to this appointment, he was staff singer in the Parish Choir since 2022, and for five years before that served as staff singer and associate conductor at St. Thomas' Church, Whitemarsh.

Recently, Kevin served as assistant music director of the mile-long opera, a work for 1000 voices by David Lang and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, staged on the High Line in New York City. In this role, he led rehearsals with 38 choirs as part of an extensive community engagement initiative across all five boroughs, collaborated with Target to prepare a preview performance at the 2018 TED Conference in Vancouver, BC, and led a performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Bang on a Can’s annual gala.

As a pop a cappella musician, he has won multiple awards for directing, arranging, and recordings with the Washington University Stereotypes and Niles West High School's Echo Effect. In ICCA/ICHSA he has led these groups to multiple Quarterfinal championships and Top 3 finishes at Semifinals, as well as "Best First Set" at SoJam A Cappella Festival in Durham, N.C. He continues to freelance as an arranger and has been commissioned by over 100 high school, collegiate, and professional ensembles. Kevin’s 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 the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University where he studied with Donald Nally, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Marketing from Washington University in St. Louis where he studied voice & conducting with Nicole Aldrich and composition with Juri Seo. He directs the choir at The Beaumont in Bryn Mawr, PA and is singer and rotating conductor with the Chestnut Street Singers in Philadelphia.