A dynamic conductor and creative producer, Trevor Kroeger has led projects spanning a spectrum of genres including choral, orchestral, opera, and hip-hop/R&B. His forward-thinking work is fueled by his dedication to generating significant social impact in the communities he serves.

Trevor is Co-President and Creative Producer of Breath Collective, a nonprofit performing arts production company he founded with soprano Alexandra Schoeny in 2019. The team at Breath Collective is on a mission to shape a revolutionary future for the performing arts—a future where communities are united and nourished through equitable, relevant, and highly-engaging experiences that bridge social divides and forge personal connections to the arts. The organization’s collective of artists, producers, and philanthropists is building a new works incubator where a spectrum of creative artists are provided the income, resources, access, and supportive environment they need to develop their ideas into new works, particularly underrepresented artists who have been historically denied these privileges.

In October 2022, Breath Collective commissioned actor and recording artist Chaundre “DreHall” Hall-Broomfield, of BET’s Kingdom Business and Hamilton: An American Musical, to create an original 20-minute hip-hop/R&B track which Trevor produced for The Hughes Project 2.0, a projection-mapped light show created for the BLINK Festival by theatre design and production students from the University of Cincinnati (UC) featuring artwork by Hughes High School students.

In 2021, Trevor and Alexandra formed The Union, Breath Collective’s professional vocal ensemble, recruiting artists from across the nation. Trevor is the ensemble’s Music Director and principal conductor. Committed to prioritizing the needs of the singers they employ and eager to provide them a collaborative and compassionately-candid working environment, the duo implemented, and continue to develop, equitable contracting and employment practices long-demanded by professional singers.

Trevor also serves as Director of Music at St. Xavier Church in downtown Cincinnati. Previously, he was Director of Music at St. Rose Church in Cincinnati, where he built an acclaimed music program and choral-orchestral concert series. In 2019, he formed the St. Rose Music Society to serve as the primary presenter and sponsor of the St. Rose Music Series. He served as both the conductor and creative producer for the series and led the Music Society in establishing the series as an inclusive and welcoming musical experience for all people, regardless of religious affiliation. Over the course of his ten-year tenure, he passionately led and expanded the music program at St. Rose, which has become a jewel in the crown of Cincinnati’s musical arts community.

In addition to his roles at Breath Collective and St. Xavier, Trevor is Director of the University of Cincinnati’s Alta Petit Treble Chorus, an ensemble made up of undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of majors representing 12 of UC’s main campus colleges. At UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), Trevor has served as Opera Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor of the CCM Chamber Choir. He conducted the CCM Ballet and Concert Orchestra in their performance of scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty in 2023, and in April 2024, he conducted the CCM Opera production of La hija de Rappaccini by Daniel Catán. He will return to the CCM Opera stage in April 2025 to conduct Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters.

In the past, Trevor has held a number of artistic leadership roles at other arts organizations in the Cincinnati region. He was the Artistic Director of Cincinnati Camerata, a choral ensemble of gifted volunteer singers, from 2018 to 2021. He has served as the Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Boychoir; Assistant Organist at The Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains; and Music Director of The Singing Seniors, Cincinnati Opera’s pop-up outreach choir for retired adults. As a dedicated arts advocate, Trevor was President of the Greater Cincinnati Choral Consortium Board of Directors from 2017 to 2020.

In April 2023, he assisted Joe Miller, director of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, in preparing the chorus for its performance on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s program Yannick and Bruckner, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In December 2023, he appeared with the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble as guest conductor of An Intimate Christmas with VAE featuring Queen City Cabaret.

Trevor holds a Master of Music degree in choral conducting and a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He has served as a conducting fellow for the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Choral Conductors Symposium, and the Chorus America Conducting Academy. Trevor has participated in masterclasses with notable conductors such as John Alexander, Simon Carrington, Lucinda Carver, David Hayes, Donald Nally, Robert Porco, Dale Warland, and Duain Wolfe. He placed second in the 2019 American Choral Directors Association National Graduate Choral Conducting Competition. Trevor is an alumnus of Beth Morrison Projects’ inaugural Producer Academy, and he is currently completing his doctorate in choral conducting at CCM where he is researching transformative artistic leadership and innovation in the choral arts, exploring the 21st-century artistic director’s dual roles of conductor and producer.