Austin Cody is a tenor and conductor based in New York City. There he regularly sings with the Bach choir at Holy Trinity Lutheran in New York City. He recently performed with the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Chamber Choir, and is currently in the TENET Vocal Artists’ mentorship program. Recent solo performances include the titular roles of Jephte in Carissimi’s oratorio with the Illinois Bach Academy and Bastien in Mozart’s operetta at Cornell University. This past year Austin was featured as a tenor soloist in Bach Cantatas 4, 70, 78, 106, and 196 with the Illinois Bach Academy and Bach Vespers NYC. Last year, Austin completed a Master of Music in Choral Conducting at the University of Illinois where he studied under Andrew Megill and served as assistant director for the University’s two glee clubs, saw two years as Music Director of the Unitarian Universalist church in Urbana, and sang in the small chamber ensemble Ecco. As a conductor outside of Illinois, Austin has worked with choirs at Cornell University, Kenyon College, the New York State Summer School of the Arts, and most recently conducted the premiere of a choral work by Yangfan Xu at Holy Trinity Lutheran.