Y’all! I wanna tell you about the super killer Kevin DeLisa! He’s a concentrated package of positive energy and super sweet person…and also an amazing teacher!
What I love about Kevin is his whole ambiance of energetic positivity. What I also love about Kevin is he has both a BM (Bachelor’s of Music) from Ithaca and an Masters from Columbia, both in teaching voice (aka: “Vocal Pedagogy”) which makes him a powerhouse voice teacher, but with an amazing disposition!
Kevin specializes in what we call “Contemporary Commercial Music” (aka: CCM) which includes pop, rock, musical theatre, and all non-classical genres. He also handles a lot of our acapella clients and is an active performer in 2 acapella groups here in NYC who play nationwide.
Altogether he has 1050+ teacher training hours which is more than any other associate besides Dr Felix. 1050 hours is 21x the number of hours of teacher training compared to the studio which requires the next most hour of teacher training. In fact, I was contacted by the head of Columbia’s Vocal Pedagogy department out of the blue with a very strong suggestion I hire him. Which I did (after auditioning him) and it’s been amazing!
Since hiring him in September of 2022, he’s also undergone 2.5 years of pedagogical training here at the studio and I seriously call him a “heavyweight” now behind his back cause there’s no other word for it.
Kevin also has taught at Lincoln Center, the American Choral Director’s Association (ACDA) and Boston Sings (BOSS) and is great with ensemble singing as well!
Kevin is a current pop performer playing gigs as a frontman and also producing amazing harmony-filled acapella vocal arrangements for which he’s been formally recognized because of the amazingness of the pieces. You’ll see a video below of him performing one of these arrangements.
We have a pretty rigourous audition process here at the studio with 3 test students. We get feedback from the students and in Kevin’s case, it was truly amazing with lots of 9s and 10s out of 10 responses which we look for but are pretty rare. Some of the comments from the student involved in his audition are below:
“Focused on what I wanted to improve. And seriously helped me sing a song I’ve been forever trying to learn.”
“Super friendly! And eager to try lots of things which was really fun and helpful.”
“When it ended.”