Baritone Kurt Loft Willett has performed extensively in concert, oratorio and opera throughout the United States. With the American Opera Center he has been heard as Bottom (A Midsummer Night's Dream), the title role in the New York Premiere of Jakob Lenz, and John Proctor (The Crucible). With Glimmerglass Opera, Kurt sang the role of Vicar Gedge (Albert Herring), of which Bernard Holland wrote "But it was the Vicar here, Kurt Loft Willett, who learned Britten's lesson best: every word was musically sung and perfectly understandable to his listeners." Performances include Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Don Carlo (La forza del destino), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Escamillo (Carmen), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Amonasro (Aida), Marcello (La Boheme), and Rigoletto.

Kurt has been a featured soloist in opera, symphonic and oratorio literature with the Alabama, Buffalo, Charleston, Charlotte, Delaware, Greenville, Lincoln, Monterey, Nashville, South Bend, Springfield and Virginia symphonies. Kurt made his Carnegie Hall debut with Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and his Metropolitan Opera House debut singing Orff’s Carmina Burana with the American Ballet Theatre. A recitalist in repertoire spanning both classical and popular music, Kurt holds both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School.