Kevin Vondrak is a conductor, collaborator, and recording producer working in New Haven and Philadelphia.

He is currently a second-year residential D.M.A. candidate in Choral Conducting at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, where he is assistant conductor of the Yale Glee Club and conductor of the Chamber Singers. He comes to New Haven from Philadelphia, where he is also associate conductor of The Crossing. As a recording producer with The Crossing, he has won two Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance (Born in 2023, and Ochre in 2025) and is a co-producer on seventeen of the ensemble’s releases. Over the last eight years, has been an artistic collaborator on dozens of world premieres with many of the world’s leading composers, at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, Kimmel Center, Lincoln Center, Symphony Hall (Boston), the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, and The Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. These projects have involved collaborations with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bang on a Can, Boston Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Community is an important aspect of his work, and he has served on the board of the cooperative choir the Chestnut Street Singers, assistant music directed David Lang’s the mile-long opera staged on The High Line in NYC (teaching the score to over 1000 local singers), and for six years directed a choir of senior citizens at The Beaumont at Bryn Mawr in suburban Philadelphia. Kevin is also an experienced church musician, most recently serving as interim choirmaster at St. Mark’s Church on Locust Street in Philadelphia, leading the distinguished music program in weekly masses and special services. He has composed and arranged music on commission from The Crossing, Northwestern University, Constellation Men’s Ensemble, and the Chestnut Street Singers. His original arrangement of the Northwestern University alma mater was featured in the university’s 2020 global PSA during nationally televised football broadcasts on ESPN and ABC. Kevin holds degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music.