Kyle Guglielmo, baritone and fellow at the A. J. Fletcher Institute, was born outside of Boston, Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in and around Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in 2007 from Georgia State University having studied under W. Dwight Coleman. While at Georgia State Kyle performed a number of full operatic roles including Sid in Albert Herring, Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Hermann, Dr. Miracle and Dapertutto in Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Kyle’s awards while at Georgia State include Dean’s Scholarship Key and the Arthur L. Montgomery Music Scholarship, and in 2006 Kyle won the School of Music’s Honors Recital competition. Kyle also took first place twice in the Georgia NATS auditions. He has participated in masterclasses with Joseph Rescigno, John DeHaan and Richard Cordova.

Other stage credits of note include Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief at the Harrower Summer Opera Workshop and Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Highlands Playhouse in Highlands, North Carolina. At the Harrower Workshop Kyle also sang the world premier of Verloc in Curtis Bryant’s new opera The Anarchists. Concert engagements include Vaughn Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, the baritone solo in the Missa Criolla by Ramirez, and several performances as the baritone soloist in Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ. Kyle was a featured soloist the in 75th Anniversary Gala of the Fox Theatre in Atlanta.

A serious student of language, Kyle pursued a minor in Italian at Georgia State. Kyle spent a summer of study in Perugia, Italy where he completed courses in Italian conversation, composition, and history. His Italian studies have culminated in an independent study of the Neapolitan dialect and literature, of which it is Kyle’s passion to present in the form of the Neapolitan song. Kyle is a student of Marion Pratnicki.