Music
Bio
Kyle Picha is a New Haven-based singer with an eclectic musical toolkit, working in baritone, tenor, and countertenor repertoires and in a variety of vocal traditions ranging from classical to barbershop to musical theater to jazz to overtone singing. Born and raised in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, he studied voice and musicology at Yale University, where he lent his energies to the Yale Collegium Musicum, the Opera Theater of Yale College, the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, the Yale Glee Club, and the Whiffenpoofs of Yale. Picha has contributed solos and arrangements to more than half a dozen a cappella albums since 2011. The Contemporary Acapella Recording Awards honored his recording of "You'll Never Walk Alone" as a finalist in their 2016 Best Male Solo category. In addition to private studies with Cameron MacPhail, Janna Baty, and Richard Slade, Picha has been privileged to travel extensively with various ensembles, having performed in nearly 40 countries on all six inhabited continents in venues ranging from cliffside jazz bars on Zanzibar to the Beijing Central Conservatory to the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.