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Kenneth Kellogg
Bass
Kenneth Kellogg is a native of Washington, D.C. Beginning in elementary school he began to sing in choirs. As a boy soprano to participated in the Washington D.C. Boy’s Choir. He began voice lessons as a voice student at the Duke Ellington School of the Performing Arts. Graduating in the top 10 percent of his class, he received a scholarship to study music at Ohio University. It was here, as a freshman, that he performed his first opera role. He was cast in every subsequent University production. Sarastro, from Mozart’s Magic Flute; Mr. Olsen in Weill’s Street Scene and the Superintendent in Britten’s Albert Herring are among his most memorable. It was also during his Ohio years that he performed with the Houston Ebony Opera Guild as Young Artist.
After receiving his BM from Ohio he matriculated to the University of Michigan’s MM program. While at Michigan he studied with baritone Daniel Washington. He was cast in many productions including, Menotti’s The Consul as Mr. Kofner; Mozart’s Don Giovanni as The Commendatore; Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea as Seneca; and Mechem’s Tartuffe as Orgon Pernelle. He also relived the role of Sarastro performing with the Comic Opera Guild. For four consecutive springs, he has participated in an outreach program with Motor City Lyric Opera on Wheels. Its mission is to expose under privileged youth to the joys of opera. Kenneth traveled with Motor City Lyric to schools and centers throughout the Detroit area performing the children’s opera The Goose Girl by Thomas Pasatieri.
As a participant in the Bel Canto Northwest summer program, he sang the roles of Figaro from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and the title role Bluebeard from Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, in Hungarian. This past summer, Kenneth again performed the role of Sarastro as a Resident Artist of the Pine Mountain Music Festival. Two personal favorite performances for Kenneth has been his participation in the production of Nancy Van de Vate’s Where the Cross is Made, which was performed for the National Opera Association Convention in 2006 and in the Conservatory Project at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and also his creation of the role of the Old Man in James P. Johnson’s De Organizer which had its staged premiere at the University of Michigan in 2006
Kenneth is currently a first year Resident Artist at The Academy of Vocal Arts.
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