Dr. Korey Barrett, vocal coach at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music, is a talented and diversely experienced musician and music educator.  His background includes training as a vocal coach, accompanist, pedagogue and singer. Most recently he served as coach and pianist for four seasons of the Des Moines Metro Opera’s James M. Collier Apprentice Program, and on mainstage productions of Macbeth, Un ballo in maschera, Regina, Carmen, Otello, The Rake’s Progress and The Magic Flute. He is also an active recitalist and masterclass clinician. Recently he performed in recital and presented masterclasses with John Hines, bass-baritone, at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Northern Iowa, Barrett served as Vocal Coach at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Music from 2006-2007. He was recently resident artist coach and accompanist at the Minnesota Opera, where he coached the area’s leading operatic talents in concert, recital, and in productions including Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Maria Padilla, Orazi e Curiazi, Don Giovanni, Joseph Merrick dit Elephant Man, Nixon in China, Carmen, Il Signor Bruschino and Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Additional coaching and performing experience includes work with Opera North, The Ohio Light Opera, the Columbus Academy of Vocal Arts, as well as projects with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Eastman School of Music Summer Institute, New Breath Productions and Grinnell Productions. He also served as adjunct professor of voice at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. 

Barrett received his Doctoral degree in piano accompanying and chamber music from the acclaimed Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, under the tutelage of Jean Barr.  He earned both his Masters and Bachelors degrees in voice from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.