Kevin Cornwell II
Choral TA

Kevin Cornwell II is a second-year graduate student in Choral Conducting at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Before arriving at UCLA, Kevin served with Julian Goods as Co-Interem Choral Director for the Detroit School of Arts in Detroit, Michigan. As a conductor, Kevin has served as the Assistant Conductor with his mentor, Dr. Michael A. Mitchell, to the Oakland University Chorus and Chorale, where he received his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Music Education. He also was a finalist for the state (Michigan) and the National American Choral Directors Association Conducting Undergraduate Masterclass in 2023. Later that year, Kevin served as Chorus Master in the UCLA Opera Department, working with Peter Kazaras and Rakefet Hak on Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. Kevin has worked with renowned composers Stacey V. Gibbs and Tom Cipullo and sung under the direction of Dr. Z. Randall Stroope, Dr. Allen Hightower, and Dr. Eugene Rogers.

Kevin enjoys a multifaceted music career as a Baritone, Film Score Composer, Arranger, and Musician outside of Choral Music. As a Baritone, Kevin has played the role of Polyphemus in G.F. Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Archibald Grosvenor in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. Kevin also won the 2021 Jessye Norman Award in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Great Lakes competition. As a Film Score Composer, Kevin has composed music for the 2021 Short film Pharmocosm, which won best short- film at the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival and an honorable mention at the Lift-Off Global Network first-time filmmakers showcase. As a Musician, Kevin plays multiple instruments in multiple genres. He has played drums/percussion for R&B/Hip-Hop and pop artists such as Rockim Williamson and Racquel Soledad. He is the current keyboard player for Latin singer Tatiana D’Voce. Kevin has played at the Detroit African World Festival, Sunset Latin Festival, Royal Oak Arts, Beats, and Eats Festival.

Kevin attributes much of his musical inspiration to his father, Kevin Cornwell Sr., his High School Choir director, who helped shape him and instilled many of his core values at a young age.

Cheryl Lin Fielding
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music
Victoria Kirsch
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
James Miller
Lecturer - Trombone Performance, Associate Principal Trombone LA Phil
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Hitomi Oba
Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Noah Meites
Lecturer - Music Theory
Lou Anne Neill
Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Wendy Richman
Lecturer - Performance Studies
Richard Danielpour
Distinguished Professor; Director of Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music
Shahab Paranj
Gramian-Emrani Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Lecturer - Composition, contemporary concert music
Jonathan Davis
Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Neal Stulberg
Professor - Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies
Varty Manouelian
Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Professor in Piano Performance
Melissa Bilal
The Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture, Director of Armenian Music Program
Ryan Brown
Lecturer - Choral Studies and Music Education
James Darrah
Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
Aubrey Foard
Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Amy Sanchez
Lecturer - Horn Performance
William Kinderman
Distinguished Professor and Elaine Krown Klein Professor in Performance Studies
Jens Lindemann
Distinguished Professor - Trumpet Performance
Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
Gregory Goodall
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Travis J. Cross
Professor - Conducting, Director of Bands
Rakefet Hak
Continuing Lecturer - Opera UCLA
Mildred Yi
Lecturer - Music Education
Dante De Silva
Lecturer - Composition and Music Theory
Sarah Koo Freeman
Visiting Professor - Cello Performance
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Musicianship
John Steinmetz
Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
Theresa Dimond
Lecturer - Percussion Performance
Camilo Cedeno
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Music
Boris Allakhverdyan
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance, Principal Clarinet LA Philharmonic
Wendy Caldwell
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Ji Young An
Lecturer - Violin Performance
Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Iris Malkin
Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Professor - Music Education, Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform
Benjamin Smolen
Lecturer - Flute Performance
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
Dwayne Milburn
Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
Kay Rhie
Assistant Professor - Composition
James Lent
Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Movses Pogossian
Distinguished Professor of Violin; Founder and Advisor, Armenian Music Program - Music Performance
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
Inna Faliks
Professor - Head of Piano Performance
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music
Gloria Cheng
Adjunct Professor - Contemporary Music, Performance Studies
James Bass
Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, Director of Choral Studies
Michael Dean
Professor - Voice Performance
Ben Hong
Lecturer - Cello Performance
David Lefkowitz
Professor - Composition, Vice Chair of the Department of Music
Lucy Yates
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Arturo O’Farrill
Director, UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra; Professor
Joshua Ranz
Lecturer - Clarinet Performance
Jan Berry Baker
Professor - Saxophone, Head of Woodwinds, Vice Chair of the Department of Music, Special Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Peter Golub
Lecturer - Composition, Music and Film
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen
Assistant Professor - Music Education

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