David began teaching private voice at Princeton University in January of 1995. His students have been accepted for post-graduate programs at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Northwestern University, the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College: The New School, Longy School of Music of Bard College, Michigan University and the American Lyric Theatre. They have attended summer programs such as the Aspen Festival, College Light Opera, Ohio Light Opera, coOperative, the Johanna Meier Opera Theatre Institute and many others. While not all his students pursue vocal music as a career, many have gone on to music-related careers, becoming composers, orchestral and choral conductors, stage-directors, collaborative pianists, dancers, actors and actresses in movies, television, and in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.
In January 2002 he made his stage directorial debut with the university’s production of the Magic Flute with conductor Richard Tang Yuk on the podium. Richard and David collaborated on productions of Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience in 2005/2006 and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in 2007/2008. In 2011, he directed Theo Popov's opera, Nero Artifex. Sponsored by the Princeton Departments of Music and Classics, the Lewis Center for the Arts and The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, this thesis production involved over 50 Princeton University students as performers, orchestra members and production staff. Most recently, David collaborated with conductor/music director, Gabriel Crouch on Albert Herring during the Spring 2012 semester.
In the classroom, David taught a vocal literature class entitled A Survey of Vocal Literature of the British Isles as the Music 214 – Vocal Performance Practice offering in the spring semester of 2004.
David Kellett earned his B.A. in Music Education with an additional concentration in Speech / Theater / Dance from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University ) in Glassboro , New Jersey . He received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Rutgers University. He received additional training at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada.
This portion of David's web-site is devoted to resources for singers and teachers.