Kevin Fox
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Kevin Fox is the founding director of the Grammy-winning Pacific Boychoir.
He has been involved with boys choirs since the age of eight. He holds degrees in Music (with Honors) and Economics from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, where he studied voice with tenor Wayne Rivera, conducting with Mel Strauss, composing with Neely Bruce, and received the Lipsky Prize for outstanding scholarship in choral studies. He studied music at Oxford University with Edward Higginbottom, and choral conducting at Westminster Choir College in Princeton with Jim Jordan and Vincent Metallo. He has served as Proctor for the American Boychoir, working with Jim Litton and Craig Denison, and has sung with the choirs of Trinity Church in New Haven, Trinity Church in Princeton, and the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys in San Francisco, where he also worked as Interim Assistant Choirmaster. He sings regularly with the American Bach Soloists.
[edit] Pacific Boychoir Academy
Under his direction, the Pacific Boychoir Academy has grown from six to 120 choristers in four treble choirs and one alumni choir. Working with the Academy staff, Mr. Fox has developed a proprietary music reading and music theory training program comparable to university-level music classes. In 2002, He developed a business plan for the choir school, a comprehensive document compiling the ideas of staff and board members in preparation for the opening of the school in the fall of 2004.
