Kristin Huggins

Style: Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Fine Arts Division Chair, Professor of Voice, Music Department Chair

Bio:

Kristin is currently the Fine Arts Division Chair, Music Department Chair, and Professor of Voice & Diction at a two-year college in East Texas, where she teaches the following courses: Applied Voice (including musical theatre majors and non-majors upon audition), Italian/French/German diction, Music Appreciation, and American Popular Music, while also performing regularly in the DFW and greater Houston area. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Kristin sits on several institutional committees, including Employee Professional Development, Curriculum and Instruction, General Education Outcomes, Title IX, and Distance Learning. Previously, she served as the National Association for Music Educators Faculty Sponsor, and the Music Director for annual collegiate musical productions. Spring 2021 marks her seventh year teaching in higher education.

Her operatic roles include Gretel in Hansel und Gretel, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Despina in Cosí fan tutte, Rose in Weill’s Street Scenes, Miss Havisham in Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night, Baby Doe in Ballad of Baby Doe, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Nanetta in Falstaff, and Miss Wordsworth from Britten’s Albert Herring.

Highlights from past seasons: In June 2015, she was featured as a semi-finalist with the Lois Alba Aria Competition of Houston, TX, shortly before her international debut in Cesis, Latvia, performing in multiple concerts leading up to the Latvian Summer Song Festival. January 2016 marked her Meyerson Symphony Center debut with the Dallas Choral Festival, performing Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. In June 2017 Kristin performed Verdi's Stabat Mater and Te Deum, and Poulenc's Gloria with the Dallas Choral Festival. In November 2017 with the Highland Park Chorale, she performed a trio of sacred cantatas by Bach, as well as Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna & Gjeilo's Sunrise Mass in May 2018.

Apart from her choral work, Kristin also is featured regularly as a vocalist and cross-over violinist in contemporary Christian albums. Her most recent work was with Carroll Street Worship on their live album "For House and Home" released August 2018. Other recorded albums include "Open" in 2017, "Amen" in 2016, and "Nothing is Impossible - LIVE" in 2015.

Kristin received her M.M. in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and her B.M. in Vocal Performance summa cum laude from Abilene Christian University. Currently, Kristin is a doctoral student with Baylor University's School of Education.

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program