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Kurt-Alexander Zeller began performing in opera, musical theatre, and oratorio in his native Pacific Northwest at age eight. Since then, he has performed throughout the United States, Spain, and Austria, and has appeared on German television. Some of his favorite stage engagements include Don Anchise il Podestą in Mozart's La finta giardiniera and Filippo in Haydn's L'infedeltą delusa with the Portland Chamber Orchestra, Monostatos in Mozart's The Magic Flute for Washington East Opera, The Minstrel in Once Upon a Mattress with Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Luiz in The Gondoliers for the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, Tschang-Ling in the American premiere of Alexander Zemlinsky's opera Der Kreidekreis in Cincinnati, a tour of Austria in a revue of the music of Kurt Weill, and two seasons in the company of the Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He also has served as stage director of Rogue Opera's productions of La Cenerentola, The Barber of Seville, and Don Pasquale. Dr. Zeller is in demand as an oratorio soloist and recitalist and has appeared in concerts from British Columbia to Florida.

Dr. Zeller is Director of Vocal Activities and Opera at Clayton College & State University in Morrow, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, and is active throughout the country as a vocal adjudicator and clinician. In July of 2002 he gave a presentation on Body Mapping and vocal pedagogy to the 43rd National Convention of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and in June of 2000 he was a presenter in Early Music America's symposium on "Keeping Musicians Healthy" at the sixth biennial Berkeley Festival of Early Music. Dr. Zeller is available to teach the Andover course, particularly to singers, actors, and other voice users, throughout the United State and the world.

Dr. Zeller trained at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he became the first undergraduate in that institution's history to earn concurrent degrees in Theatre and in Music. His graduate studies were at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, where he was awarded the MM in Voice Performance and a DMA in Voice Performance with cognate studies in Opera Directing and Musicology. He has done further study at the Early Music Institute of Indiana University and the 1995 National Association of Teachers of Singing Internship Program at Florida State University. His principal teachers have been Ellen Faull, Patricia Berlin, Gary Kendall, and Barbara Hill Moore (voice); Italo Tajo, Diane Kvapil, and Laura Johnson (acting and directing); Margaret Loft (speech and dialect); and Barbara Conable and Jim Hancock (Alexander Technique).

Bravo Great mix of visuals, demonstrations, metaphors, verbal cues. Bravo, too, on high level of enthusiasm and energy and fun/playfulness, within the context of helping everyone re-map." - Dr. Sarah Hersh String faculty Crane School of Music SUNY-Potsdam

Aware and Educated "It was wonderful to see the transformation of my body, feel the release of tension, and hear the difference in my sound. I feel more aware and educated about the functions of my body than ever." - Kyra Kenwood, flutist SUNY-Potsdam workshop participant

A Dynamo "Immensely clear--and the forays into questions and answers were always on the mark and holding to the material at hand. Kurt Zeller is a dynamo of positive information. He is so good with individuals as well as before a large group." -Professor Deborah Massell Voice faculty Crane School of Music SUNY-Potsdam