Chicago, Illinois, United States
Kyle Anthony Cortés, M.M. (He/Him), is an Afro-Latino multi-disciplinary artist and educator working in voice performance, composition, sound design, and music direction. He's most excited by collaborations on new works that explore the bounds of our different artistic mediums for authentic storytelling. Based in Chicago, IL, his recent credits include collaborations with companies such as The Goodman Theatre (Fat Ham, Assistant Sound Design & 2025 Musical Theatre Intensive, Lead Music Director), The Second City Theatre (Bob Curry and Victor Wong Fellow, Music Direction), Visión Latino Theatre Co. (Las Borinqueñas, Sound Design), Filament Theatre (Farewell Opportunity, Sound Design), Artemisia Theatre (GOODS, Sound Design), Definition Theatre (Judy's Life's Work, Co-Sound Design), and more. In line with his artistic endeavors, he is a teaching artist for the Goodman Musical Theatre Intensive and the music conservatory at The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts). While at ChiArts, he's designed and led courses such as Music Theory Fundamentals, Aural Skills, Vocal Performance Fundamentals 2 (French and German Diction), Vocal Performance 4 (College Audition Prep), Treble Choir, Piano Skills, Guitar Skills for the Vocalist, and Acting the Song. Trained in classical voice as a tenor, Cortés has sung operatic roles such as Lucio Silla in Handel’s Silla, the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, and Mayor Upfold in Britten’s Albert Herring. Cortés completed his master's degree with honors in vocal performance at DePaul School of Music in Chicago. He relocated to Chicago after having graduated cum laude with two Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of Florida in vocal performance and composition. His other formal training includes a summer of private lessons in voice and composition in the live-coding environment MAX/MSP at the Mozarteum Conservatory in Salzburg, Austria, under the director of electro-acoustic composition, Dr. Achim Bornhöft. He is eager to share, collaborate, and bring to life stories through dynamic sonorous landscapes.
Offering private instruction in Voice, Guitar, Piano, and Composition
Course load increase | Vocal Performance Foundations 1 | Class size: 20 | High School Freshman Course Scope: introducing English, Italian, and French diction, voice technique, and repertoire in a group setting. As the long term substitute the lead teacher asked me to design curriculum on French diction using Ici bas as the performance piece. I've pulled chapters from Grubb's "Singing in French: a manual of French diction and French vocal repertoire" and the 4th edition of Montgomery's " French Lyric Diction Workbook" and designed curriculum.