Dr. Kerry Ginger (she/her), mezzo soprano, is active nationally as a performer, voice pedagogue, clinician, and scholar. Currently Associate Professor of Voice at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, she earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Voice and Master of Music in Opera Performance at Arizona State University. Kerry has appeared as a soloist with the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, Music in the Mountains, The Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera, Phoenix Opera, Cal Poly Bach Week, Mid-Columbia Mastersingers, Quintessence, and Southwest Arts. An avid choral artist, she performs regularly with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and Kinnara, and has also sung with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Skylark, Brevitas, Spire, sounding light, Helios, and the Phoenix Chorale. Kerry appears on GRAMMY Award-winning recordings by the Phoenix Chorale and True Concord for the Naxos/Chandos and Reference labels, as well as albums with Brevitas and Coro. She maintains an active portfolio of oratorio engagements and recitals, and heads a professional vocal quartet, Element, which performs dynamic historical and contemporary vocal chamber music.

As a voice instructor, Dr. Ginger enables her students to find a free and vibrant vocal production in all styles. She participated in the highly selective National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Intern teacher training program in 2019, and earned the Certificate of Distinction in Vocal Pedagogy through Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop in 2020. Kerry is a member of the Tennessee chapter and Mid-South region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In teaching diverse vocal styles and repertoires, Kerry is dedicated to asset-based pedagogies which honor students’ interests and experiences, and she actively champions works by women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ composers, songwriters, and poets.

Kerry’s research interests include women composers of turn-of-the-century and interwar Germany and Austria, feminist and queer musicology, and many other intersections of music, culture, and pedagogy. She has presented at the Boulanger Initiative; two College Music Society National Conferences; the CMS Southern, Rocky Mountain, and Pacific Southwest regional conferences; the West Central Regional Conference of NATS; the Music by Women Festival; and Colorado Music Educators Association. She has published liner notes for the Albany Records classical releases Songs to Fill the Void and Other Works by American Composers (2016) and Occident Meets Orient (2015), as well as program notes for the Phoenix Chorale.

Committed to service within music, Dr. Ginger has participated on the executive boards of the Mid-South region and Valley of the Sun chapter of NATS, the CMS Southern and Rocky Mountain chapters, and the CMEA Collegiate Council. Dr. Ginger is also committed to best practices in collegiate teaching, and took part in the 2023 Appalachian College Association’s Teaching and Leadership Institute, the inaugural cohort of the Nielsen Center for the Liberal Arts (2022), the 2019 CMS Summit 2.0 on music school curricula, and the 2018 CUR Institute for Creative Inquiry in the Arts and Humanities. She is passionate about promoting undergraduate research, and advocates for student and faculty researchers as a member of Sewanee’s Undergraduate Research Advisory Council and University Research Grants Committee.

In addition to her work at The University of the South, Kerry has served on the vocal arts and music history faculties of Fort Lewis College, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix College, and Paradise Valley Community College, and has held a faculty associate position in music history and literature at Arizona State University. An Oregonian by upbringing, she currently resides in beautiful Chattanooga, Tennessee.