The Chamber Singers of the Yale Glee Club is a group of approximately 24 singers who perform choral works primarily designed for a small ensemble. Their repertoire ranges from sacred music to madrigals to modern pieces. Selections from the repertoire are performed throughout the year at various Glee Club concerts. Membership is open to members of the Glee Club.
Kevin Vondrak, conductor
Kevin is a second-yearD.M.A. candidate in Choral Conducting at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. He comes to Yale from Philadelphia, where he is associate conductor of The Crossing, a professional new-music choir.
He has worked on dozens of world premieres with many of the world’s leading composers, at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, Kimmel Center, Lincoln Center, The Met Cloisters,, the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, The Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. These projects have involved collaborations with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bang on a Can, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. As a recording producer with The Crossing, he has won two Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance (Born in 2023, and Ochre in 2025). Kevin is also an experienced church musician, most recently serving as interim choirmaster at St. Mark’s Church on Locust Street in Philadelphia. He takes particular pride in his six-year tenure directing The Beaumont Chorus, a vibrant choir of senior citizens in suburban Philadelphia, and in teaching David Lang’s the mile-long opera to over 1000 avocational singers in a performance on The High Line in New York City. Kevin holds degrees from Washington University in St. Louis (B.A. Music) and Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music (M.M. Choral Conducting). He lives in Wooster Square with his fiancée Brittany, and enjoys camping, cooking, and playing Bach on the mandolin.