Vocal Education:
- B.A. in Vocal Performance from Asbury College
- M.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Kentucky
Teaching experience includes:
- Adjunct voice instructor for 3 years at Point Loma Nazarene University
- Adjunct voice instructor at Trevecca Nazarene University from 2005 to the present
Opera roles performed include:
- Balthazar in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Colline in Puccini’s La Boheme
- Don Alfosnso in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
- Don Magnifico in Rossini’s Cinderella
- Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
- John Falstaff in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Olin Blitch in Floyd’s Susannah Pooh-bah in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado
- Sarastro in Mozart’s The Magic Flute
- Sparafucile in Verdi’s Rigoletto
Professional opera houses:
- Central City Opera
- Chicago Lyric Opera
- Long Beach Opera
- Opera Omaha
- San Diego Opera
Musical Theatre roles performed include:
- Harold Hill in The Music Man
- Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music
- The King in The King & I
Mr. Koehn has also appeared as bass soloist in many choral masterworks, including:
- Brahms - Requiem
- Bruckner - Te Deum
- Dubois - The Seven Last Words of Christ
- Faure - Requiem
- Handel - Messiah
- Haydn - Lord Nelson Mass
- Haydn - The Creation
- Haydn - The Seven Last Words of Christ
- Honegger - King David (Narrator)
- Mendelssohn - Elijah
- Mozart - Requiem / Solemn Vespers
- Saint-Saens - Christmas Oratorio
- Schubert - Mass in G
- Vaughan Williams - The Holy City
If you would like more information, please call the Division of Music at 615-248-1288 or e-mail
Daniel Koehn