Kasey Sliwinski

• UIUC Music Department's VOICE @ Illinois Vocal Achievement Award - 2024
• He recently performed as a featured soloist and Ambassador of Hope in the JCC Chicago's concert and fundraiser Growing Hope on September 25, 2024 at Gallagher Way in Chicago (adjacent to Wrigley Field) alongside violinist Rachel Barton Pine, American Idol Winner Lee DeWyze, and Tony® and Grammy® Award nominee Shoshana Bean.

Kasey Sliwinski's pronouns are he/him. Kasey is a sophomore pursuing a BMA in the Lyric Theatre program (combining opera and musical theater) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studying with Grammy Award Winner and Swanlund Professor of Voice/Co-Director of Lyric Theatre Nathan Gunn.

He recently performed as a featured soloist and Ambassador of Hope in the JCC Chicago's concert and fundraiser Growing Hope on September 25, 2024 at Gallagher Way in Chicago (adjacent to Wrigley Field) alongside violinist Rachel Barton Pine, American Idol Winner Lee DeWyze, and Tony® and Grammy® Award nominee Shoshana Bean.

At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he has performed in Carnaval! (2024), and as John Doe Cover/Ensemble in the opera Black Square, Lyric Under the Stars (2024) , and sings with the Varsity Men’s Glee Club and UIUC Chamber Singers. In 2024, he was awarded the UIUC Music Department's VOICE @ Illinois Vocal Achievement Award.

Kasey began his career at the age of 9. He has worked with many Chicago area theater companies, performing in musicals, operettas and opera.

Some of his favorite roles include Enjolras in Les Misérables, Older Karl in The Christmas Schooner, Tarzan in Tarzan the Musical, Frank Abagnale Jr. in Catch Me If You Can, and Prince Eric in Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

He has also performed with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago in H.M.S. Pinafore and The Savoyaires in their Gilbert & Sullivan productions of Trial by Jury and Yeoman of the Guard.