Zachary K. Devin

Fellow of the Institute for Healthy Singing

Zachary K. Devin joined the staff of the Institute for Healthy Singing as a fellow in 2021. Zachary is a graduate teaching assistant pursuing a Ph.D. in music education with an emphasis in vocal pedagogy through the Music Education/Music Therapy Department at the University of Kansas. Zack received his undergraduate degree in Music from Millikin University and graduate degrees from Rice University and The Royal Academy of Music in London.

At the University of Kansas, Zack teaches undergraduate courses in Vocal Pedagogy, Principals of Speech Science, Choral Diction, and Choral Conducting, and he assists in teaching graduate-level Vocal Pedagogy. Zack’s research interests include vocal fatigue, vocal warm-ups, breathing kinematics, and vocal pedagogy.

Before his work at KU, Zack was a member of the adjunct voice faculty at the University of Missouri St. Louis, Lindenwood University, and St. Charles Community College. As a passionate voice teacher, he maintains voice studios at the University of Missouri St Louis and St. Charles Community College.

Zack is an active stage and concert artist. Zachary Devin’s tenor voice has been praised as “superb,” “strong,” and “impassioned“ by Opera Today. He made his London stage debut as Jupiter in Hampstead Garden Opera’s production of Handel’s Semele. Soon after, he made his European debut in Budapest as Peter Quint in Britten’s Turn of The Screw. Zack returned to the United States to appear with such companies as The Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Nashville Opera, Dayton Opera, and the St. Louis Symphony Chorus.