Kevin Meidl, is an American conductor, music educator, and leader in the field of choral music artistry and performance. He presents masterclasses to teachers and conductors world-wide and conducts ensembles of all ages, styles, and voicings. He is in demand as a director of honor, all-state, and festival choirs across the United States and abroad.
Kevin Meidl was a founding conductor with the Badger State Girl Choir in 2006. As conductor and artistic director of this ensemble, he leads elementary, middle and high school girls in a diverse performance-based program inclusive of both choral music performance and literacy. In 2022, the Badger State Women’s Choir was added to their extensive program and in 2025 the organization expanded further with the inclusion of the Badger State Youth Choirs – Green Bay.
In addition, he is the artistic director and principal conductor with the Appleton Boychoir, a treble choir of young boys currently celebrating their forty-seventh season. He is past director of choirs and music department chair at Appleton West High School and the Renaissance School for the Arts. He taught junior high school and high school choral music in Appleton for thirty-seven years. He is also past conductor of the Fox Valley Symphony Chorus, a 100-voice adult choir that performed an annually major works with the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra.
Meidl is Past President of the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association and the North Central Division of the American Choral Directors Association. In these positions, he created the International Youth Symposium on Choral Music in Altötting, Germany, and the national conference for high school students considering careers in choral music called NextDirection. He has developed various initiatives in support of music education in Wisconsin including confabs for choral directors, music repertoire banks, summer choir camps, and the highly successful “Immersion Day” concept for divisional ACDA conferences. His most recent initiative is focused on Scandinavia and the Baltic States…FESTIVAL OF THREE brings the world’s finest choral ensembles together to premiere newly commissioned works by internationally renowned composers and to join voices in remarkable venues. The 2022, 2023 and 2025 festivals included some 800 singers from five countries with Latvia’s Eriks Esenvalds and Estonia’s Pärt Uusberg as the commissioned composers.
He founded the Ponce International Composition Competition in 2024 and introduced Broadway in the Caribbean in 2025. In 2026 the first International Handbell Festival will also be produced by his Arts Engage International corporation. All the initiatives are based in Puerto Rico.
As an adjudicator, conductor, clinician, and lecturer, Meidl is in demand across the United States and Internationally. In 2022-2025 he has worked in Greece, Italy, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico. He has written dozens of articles and is a contributing author in BROTHERS SING ON! Conducting the Tenor-Bass Choir (Jonathan Palant). He has worked extensively with the unchanged male singing voice, as well as nearly four decades conducting tenor-bass and changing voice ensembles. He often presents masterclasses on these subjects. He has conducted his choirs on fifteen professional music conference/convention programs and has offered workshops in some thirty-five countries during his career.
Dr. Meidl studied conducting with William Hienz, Jr., Constantina Tsolainou, Kate Tamarkin, Robert Harris, and John Paynter at Northwestern University. He holds degrees from Lawrence University, Boston University, and Northwestern University.
