Click Here for Program: Joshua Zink, Baritone, and Ben Wadsworth, Piano, September 4, 2025 Joshua Zink is Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera at Kennesaw State University. He previously served as Associate Professor at Carson-Newman University, where he created and led the Opera Theatre Program—earning the 2018 Faculty Creativity Award—taught Vocal Pedagogy, Diction, and Class Voice, directed the Women Singers, and managed the Vocal Arts Lab. He has also held faculty positions at Middle Tennessee State and Doane University. As a baritone, Dr. Zink has performed with Knoxville Opera, Opera New Jersey, Dayton Opera, Nashville Opera, Opera Omaha, and others. At Harrower Summer Opera, he co-directed the Young Artist Program scenes and performed in Little Women. He has performed Schubert’s Winterreise six times, including three with his mentor, John Wustman. Passionate about new music, his scholarship centers on Tom Cipullo’s America 1968. He hosted Cipullo for a campus residency that included a performance of An Earth to Walk Upon. A past President of Tennessee NATS, Dr. Zink received the 2022 NATS Emerging Leader Award. Outside of music, he is a competitive cyclist, proud husband to Andrea, and father to Hazel (4) and Theo (1). Ben Wadsworth is Professor of Music Theory at Kennesaw State University, where he coordinates the theory area, advises theory majors, and teaches undergraduate courses in written theory, aural skills, theory pedagogy, and other topics. This summer, Ben and his wife, Kelly Francis, both graded AP Music Theory exams in Cleveland, Ohio. His undergraduate textbook with co-author Dariusz Terefenko, Explorations in Music Theory, was published earlier this year by Routledge. His current research examines how historical content can be integrated into theory classes. He has played the piano since the age of 5, and studied with many teachers including Cheryl Wadsworth, Elsie Easterbrook, Moshe Paranov, Grant Johannesen, Sanford Margolis, and Sara Davis Beuchner. He is excited to perform this recital with Joshua Zink, and the two plan on giving it this fall at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) and East Tennessee State University (Johnson City). Ben enjoys directing the music program at FULC, running and swimming, learning German, and spending time with wife Kelly and kids Sophie (16) and Peter (14).