Zackery Morris, tenor, administrator and teacher, Zackery is thrilled to join the UK Opera Theatre team as interim program coordinator. Equally at home on the oratorio, opera and musical theatre stages, Dr. Morris has worked with a wide array of organizations focusing on vocal music. Recent oratorio credits include serving as chorister and soloist with Bourbon Baroque and the Kentucky Bach Choir. Zackery has worked with several opera companies nationally including Opera Saratoga, American Lyric Theatre, Opera Maine, Kentucky Opera, Bayview Music Festival, Ohio Light Opera, University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, Gulf Shore Opera and Carolina Opera. Some of his favorite UK Opera performance credits include Alamaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Jonathan Dale (Silent Night), Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd), The Four Servants (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), and Tateh (Ragtime). Zackery has performed internationally with the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Choirs, and nationally with the North Carolina Master Chorale, University of Kentucky and Wingate University Choirs. In addition to his performance and administration duties, Dr. Morris is also an advocate for voice studies focusing on yoga and stress reduction techniques and received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree based on this research. Zackery has been a featured lecturer for the American Choral Directors Association, Kentucky National Association of Teachers of Singers and a speaker with Yoga Alliance.