Gayle Lockwood is currently a faculty member at Brigham Young University where she has taught in the Music Dance Theatre program since 1984, specializing in both traditional music theatre and contemporary vocal techniques. She holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Secondary Music Education from Brigham Young University and a Master of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Utah where she studied with Betty Jeanne Chipman. In addition to teaching private voice and voice classes for the BYU Music Dance Theatre program, Ms. Lockwood serves as Musical Director for productions at BYU, Tuacahn Center for the Arts (a professional regional non-profit production organization,) as well as community theatre. She has been a guest lecturer and clinician for many groups including local and regional chapters of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Jazz Choir at Shenandoah Conservatory, and several local high schools.
Broadway productions in which students of Ms. Lockwood have performed include: Legally Blonde, Xanadu, South Pacific, Alter Boyz, 110 in the Shade, Brooklyn the Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Mama Mia, Good Vibrations, Les Miserables, Jane Eyre, Miss Saigon, and National Tours of Wicked, Hairspray, Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Scarlet Pimpernel, Phantom of the Opera, 42nd Street, and Cats as well as many regional theatre and non-equity tours.
Ms. Lockwood enjoys life in the quiet state of Utah with her very supportive husband.
