Kevin Fox, Choral Director

Kevin Fox, Director of the Marin Symphony Chorus since August 2017, is a singer, composer, arranger, and GRAMMY-winning conductor who started singing in choirs at the age of eight. He holds degrees in Music (with Honors) and Economics from Wesleyan University, CT. He has also studied music at Oxford University and choral conducting at Westminster Choir College. Mr. Fox was the Founding Artistic Director of the Pacific Boychoir Academy, turning beginning singers into America’s leading boys’ choir.
Mr. Fox has prepared choirs for most of the world’s leading orchestral conductors, including Michael Tilson Thomas, Gustavo Dudamel, and James Conlon. He has collaborated with numerous ensembles and artists, including San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Kronos Quartet, Dmitri Hvorostovky, Marcus Shelby, and cellist Zöe Keating, and he has prepared choirs for a variety of clients that include the United Nations, Yahoo! Corporation, comedian Zach Galifianakis, and America’s Got Talent.
Mr. Fox has been guest conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and the UC Davis University Chorus and has served as the Chorus Director for the Ojai Festival. He was selected as Classical Movements’ inaugural India Choral Fellow in 2017 and has been awarded “Heritage Keeper” status from the Friends of Negro Spirituals. As a professional countertenor and bass, Fox has sung with the choirs of Trinity Church in New Haven, Trinity Church in Princeton, American Bach Soloists, and Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys in San Francisco, where he also worked as Assistant Choirmaster.
Mr. Fox has conducted choirs in venues around the world that include Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (LA), International House of Music (Moscow), Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing), St Peters Basilica (Vatican City), Washington National Cathedral, Dvořák Hall (Prague), Teatro Independencia (Mendoza), Basilica San Marco (Venice), the Royal Chapel at Versailles, Candelaria Cathedral (Rio), Linder Auditorium (Johannesburg), and Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris).