Kevin Meidl is conductor and Artistic Director with the Appleton Boychoir. His association with the choir began in December of 1979 when, as a singer, he performed A Christmas Cantata (Arthur Honegger) with the Appleton Boychoir.  In the 1981-1982 season, he assisted with rehearsals and their summer programs at Ripon College.  He was officially hired in the spring of 1983 to be a conductor with an expanding choir program.  This season marks the fortieth year of his tenure conducting the Appleton Boychoir.

Meidl is past music department chair and director of choirs at Appleton West High School and a founding director of the Renaissance School for the Arts. In addition, he is founder and principal conductor of the Badger State Girl Choir. He is past president of the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association, and past president of the North Central American Choral Directors Association where he was responsible for the professional development of choral directors across the upper Midwest. He has studied conducting with Constantina Tsolainu, Kate Tamarkin, Robert Harris, and John Paynter. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, a master’s degree from Northwestern University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University.

As an international adjudicator and guest conductor, he conducts local ensembles, presents masterclasses, festivals, and workshops across the globe.  Recent engagements include Peru, Estonia, Greece, and China. Recently he guest conducted several choirs in Estonia including the famed Radio Girls’ Choir of Tallinn. His 2022-2023 conducting schedule includes performances in Argentina, Puerto Rico, Greece, France, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia. He is the founder and chief artistic director of Festival of Three which brings American ensembles together with world-class international ensembles in some of the world’s most renowned performance halls and cathedrals.  Through that program he commissions composers and premieres their works as part of the festival concert series.  Recent commissions include Ēriks Ešenvalds (Latvia) and Pärt Uusberg (Estonia)

Choirs under his direction have performed for fifteen state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, NAfME: The National Association for Music Education, the American Guild of Organists, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association, with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Fox Valley Symphony, the Pamiro Opera Company, and the Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra. The Badger State Girl Choir presented a solo concert in New York’s famed Carnegie Hall in April of 2014 for a nearly full house. Under his direction, the Appleton Boychoir performed in the renowned Rudolfinum Hall in Prague, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the historic Sheldon Theatre in St. Louis, and many other major venues around the world. His choirs have recorded a dozen albums including five with Delta Records and one produced and directed by Gunther Schuller featuring the music of Alec Wilder. They have performed in over thirty countries around the world; for the 50th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France and for Pope John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI in Rome.  In 2020 he was honored to conduct the Appleton Boychoir at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts (Milwaukee) for the American Choral Directors Association double-regional conference.

Kevin Meidl has conducted all-state choirs and regional honor choirs throughout the country and is in demand as a guest clinician and adjudicator. Most recently, he conducted the Minnesota All-State Boychoir, the 1,000 voice South Dakota All-State Chorus and the Wisconsin All-State Children's Choir. As a speaker he has presented on a variety of subjects on national conventions programs for NAfME and ACDA and has delivered keynote addresses at professional music gatherings across Midwest including recently the NDSU Music Education Symposium in Fargo where he will return in October as guest festival conductor. NextDirection: the national conference for high school students considering careers in choral music and the International Youth Symposium on Choral Music (Altötting, Germany) are among his professional initiatives. Meidl has written dozens of articles for professional journals and newsletters and is a contributing author to the newly released book "Brothers Sing On! Conducting the Tenor-Bass Choir." His research on scheduling and performance-based music classes has been presented in every state across the country and for the NAfME national conference in Phoenix (1998). Currently Meidl is researching the impact of WCDA on Wisconsin’s choral music as seen through the eyes of its presidents.

Dr. Meidl is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the International Federation for Choral Music, NAfME: The National Association for Music Education, the Voice Care Network, the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Pi Kappa Lambda. He was selected as secondary educator of the year for the Appleton Public Schools in 1995 and received the Helble Outstanding Teacher Award in 2008. His biography is listed in recent publications of Who's Who in America, Who's Who among America's Teachers, Who's Who in American Education and several other honorary publications.