Randy McGee

Voice | Director, Opera Workshop,

Department

Music

Biography

Randy McGee, tenor, remains an active performer, teacher and conductor based in the Boston area. Dr. McGee includes the Bach Cantata Series with internationally- acclaimed Emmanuel Music and Craig Smith, Grammy-nominated Boston Baroque, and the Handel and Haydn Society among his credits. McGee has sung under the direction of Helmuth Rilling, Seiji Ozawa, Robert Shaw, Christopher Hogwood, Roger Norrington, Andre Thomas, Anton Armstrong and our own John Finney. In addition to McGee’s solo credits, his ensemble work includes the Waverly Consort and the Boston Early Music Festival.  McGee also includes the concert series of St. John the Devine and Alice Tully Hall, the Proms Festival in Royal Albert Hall, the Beethoven Festival in Poland, the Pablo Casals Festival in San Juan, PR, and the Ravinia Festival in Chicago in his performing credits.

McGee earned his Doctor of Arts in Vocal Performance and Conducting with honors at the University of Northern Colorado. While fulfilling his teaching assistantship responsibilities, he served as assistant director for the opera program and musical director for a variety of opera and music theatre productions. McGee directed Face in the Barroom Floor at Central City, CO and was assistant director for UNC’s Opera Gala at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver.  Before moving permanently to Boston, McGee was Asst. Professor of Voice and Pedagogy at Adams State College in Alamosa, CO and Asst. Professor of Voice and Choral Activities at Northwestern Oklahoma State in Alva, OK. 

McGee serves on both the academic and performing faculties at Boston College where he teaches Fundamentals of Music Theory, directs the Opera Program and teaches private voice instruction. In addition to McGee’s BC responsibilities, he currently serves as Music Director for the Hingham-based Unicorn Singers and Music Director/Organist for First Parish Congregational in Norwood, MA. In the Boston area, Dr. McGee has directed church, high school and college ensembles in residence, and often served as guest clinician for high school and college ensembles. He previously served on the faculties of Salem State University, Milton Academy, and Philips Exeter Academy.