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The American bass-baritone and music pedagogue, Keith Colclough, obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Music: Voice from Pepperdine University (August 2004-May 2008). He continued his studies at UC Santa Barbara, where he obtanied; his Master of Music in Voice (2010-2012) and his Doctor of Music degree in Voice (2012-2015). His training includes vocal fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, the Aspen Opera Center, Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, Songfest. After completing his undergraduate studies, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Mannheim, Germany, where he studied voice at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (2008-2009) and performed with the Opernschule.
Praised in Opera News for his "rich authoritative" voice, Keith Colclough is equally at home as a performer, scholar, and educator. He maintains an active performing career, and has been a soloist with a number of arts organizations, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Santa Barbara, Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Pacific Opera Project, LACMA Sundays Live, Salastina Society, and the Santa Barbara Choral Society. He was a studio artist at Opera Santa Barbara (Former Studio Artist at Opera Santa Barbara (September 2011-2014) and a member of their improvisation-based outreach program, Opera Lab, improvising operas at elementary schools throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura County. Past operatic roles include Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Doctor Bartolo in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Publio in W.A. Mozart's La Clemeza di Tito, both the Speaker and Sarastro in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Peter Quince in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He also frequently performs recitals of art songs and musical theater, and has diverse experience as a choral and studio singer.
Keith Colclough served on the faculty at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles (2015-2016). Since 2014, he serves at at Pepperdine University as: Adjunct Voice Instructor (August 2014-September 2016); Visiting Assistant Professor of Music (August 2016-September 2018); and Associate Professor of Voice and Director of Opera (since August 2018). His duties include private voice lessons, diction courses, and vocal and stage direction for the Flora L. Thornton Opera Program. His past directing credits at Pepperdine include Le Nozze di Figaro, Gianni Schicchi, Dido and Aeneas, Die Fledermaus, and a virtual production of Massenet’s Cendrillon. He also directs the vocal side of the Heidelberg Summer Music Program, performing with Pepperdine students throughout Austria and Germany. In addition to his duties at Pepperdine, he maintains a studio of professional voice students, several of whom have found success on major operatic stages and national musical theatre tours. In 2018, he was a vocal intern at the prestigious NATS Intern Program for early-career voice teachers. He continued his study of German language and vocal literature through his DMA Document, “Schubert’s incorporation and transcendence of recitative in Lieder,” which examines the evolution of Schubert’s compositional style and the elevation of Lieder as a genre, and explores the influence of opera and cantata on early German Lieder.
Keith Colclough married Maya Dair Rothfuss on August 5, 2018 and currently lives in Malibu, California. He is also a piano tuner. |
