Gayle Lockwood
2022 Artist in Residence
Gayle Lockwood

The Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific is excited to announce that Gayle Lockwood will be our annual Lynelle F. Wiens Artist in Residence in April 2022.

About Gayle

Gayle Lockwood, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, has called Orem, Utah home for the past 36 years. She recently retired from teaching music at Brigham Young University (BYU), where she taught voice in the Music Dance Theatre (MDT) program. Her specialization was in both traditional musical theater and contemporary vocal techniques. Gayle holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Secondary Music Education from BYU and a Master of Music Degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Utah, where she studied under Betty Jeanne Chipman, who is a master teacher and the author of “Singing with Mind Body and Soul." In addition to teaching private voice and voice classes for the BYU MDT program, Gayle served as musical director for numerous productions including: Phantom of the Opera, She Loves Me, Secret Garden, Little Women and the American premier of Frank Wildhorn’s The Count of Monte Cristo.

 

She has been a guest lecturer and clinician for many groups including local and regional chapters of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Grammy Award winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, the New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA), and the Music Theater Educators Alliance (MTEA). Her students have performed in over 50 Broadway and Broadway touring companies. Gayle and her husband, John, have two daughters, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Gayle will be teaching a masterclass on musical theater and contemporary singing styles on April 22, as well as meeting with a handful of students for private lessons.

Lynelle F. Wiens

Wiens joined Pacific in 1978 as a professor of vocal studies and retired in May 2020. She is a recipient of the Order of the Pacific, the highest honor awarded by the university.

Lynelle Wiens