Gayle Grout Professor of Voice, Alexander Technique, KIIS Director of Salzburg Program: MM New England Conservatory, Mozarteum Akademie Salzburg, BM Oberlin College
Office: FA 364 Phone: 859.572.5622 Email: grout@nku.edu
Gayle Grout, Soprano, is a professor of voice. She received her Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College and her Master of Music from the New England Conservatory and continued her study of opera at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg, Austria.
Professionally, Professor Grout has sung leading roles in Die Fledermaus, The Marriage of Figaro, La Boheme, La Perichole and others throughout the South. Performances include musical theater singing leads in Guys and Dolls, Little Mary Sunshine, The King and I, Carousel and The Boyfriend in New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. Professor Grout has also performed as soprano soloist in Oratorio in the U.S. and in Europe. Gayle represented the U.S. in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia for their 40th Music Festival singing the soprano solos in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass and Vaughan Williams' To Music.
In 1989, Professor Grout founded the Kentucky Institute for International Studies Program in Salzburg, Austria and the first program began in 1990 and has been on-going since that time. It is a five-week intensive music program for under-graduate students to earn credits towards their degree and also provides venues for student performances.
