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He then was a featured clinician at the educational Theatre Association’s 2015 National Conference in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Corey then joined South Dakota Chorale for performances at the 2015 A.C.D.A. Spring 2015 began with a faculty recital at Northwestern State University, performing the bass solos in Bach’s BMV 78 with Austin Baroque Orchestras and emceeing the 2015 ArtsWork Awards Gala. He then performed the baritone solos in Durufle’s Requiem with Louisiana Tech University. During Spring 2016, Corey’s engagements included a school recital at N.S.U., presenting “The Singer Actor Workshop” at the University of Southern Mississippi, guest soloist for Monroe Symphony Orchestra’s manufacturing of The Music of Billy Joel & Elton John and guest vocalist for Louisiana Delta Ballet’s manufacturing of Power and beauty. He was guest vocalist with the Northwestern Florida Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops Concert and performed recitals in Vienna, Austria and Atlanta, Georgia. Corey began the 2014-2015 season with “The Voices: One Night Only”, a profit concert for the Strauss Theatre Center.

In June 2015, Corey joined Richard Seiler (pianist) to reprise Schumann’s Dichterliebe: Opus forty eight for Grace Episcopal Church’s Summer Concert Series and was named General Manager of Strauss Theatre Center. That fall, Corey music directed N.S.U.’s manufacturing of Young Frankenstein, performed two live performance tours (The Better of Broadway and Home for the holidays) with Lisa Phifer (soprano) and Richard Seiler (pianist) and was Artistic Director for N.S.U.’s 2016 Christmas Gala. He carried out Franklin D. Roosevelt in Annie with the Academy of Children’s Theatre, music directed N.S.U.’s production of Next to Normal, carried out Hooray for Hollywood with Maryann Kyle (soprano) as part of Mississippi Opera’s Duling Hall Cabaret Series and performed Mordred in Camelot at the 2017 Natchez Festival of Music. Southern Region Conference. Corey traveled to Houston to current singing actor grasp classes for potential high school music theatre students. In March 2017, Corey offered “Voice Training for Musical Theatre” at S.E.T.C.’s 2017 National Conference in Lexington, Kentucky and lectured on the 2017 Pedagogy of Style Conference at the University of Southern Mississippi. March 2014 featured concerts at Bangkok’s Sala Sudasiri Sobha and the Lotus Pang Suan Kaew Hotel in Chiangmai, Thailand.

In previous seasons, Mr. Trahan has been seen as Pang in Turandot and Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Birmingham, Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Santa Fe Concert Association, Dr. Blind/ Ivan/ Frosch in Die Fledermaus at Amarillo Opera and Salt Marsh Opera, Njegus in the Merry Widow at Opera New Jersey, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte at OperaWorks! Corey returned to Santa Fe as Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte with the Santa Fe Concert Association and Opera Birmingham as Remendado in Carmen. Corey Trahan’s 2010-2011 season included performances of Mr. Erlanson in Slightly Night Music at St. Petersburg Opera (Fl), the position of Giordano Bruno in the new opera Bliss by Joseph Illick, and as a featured soloist in a Jacques Brel is Alive and Living in Paris, each with the Santa Fe Concert Association. Corey started the 2015-2016 season by stage directing Gypsy for Strauss Theatre Center and music directing N.S.U.’s production of RENT. Corey offered a concert of sacred music in Baton Rouge and carried out Monsieur Thenardier (position debut) in Les Miserables in Concert with the Strauss Theatre Center. Recently Corey made his worldwide debut performing the roles of Lacouf and Le Journaliste Parisien in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tiresias in Bangkok, Thailand.

Throughout the 2016-2017 season, Corey carried out John Utterson in Jekyll and Hyde with the Academy of Children’s Theatre, music directed N.S.U.’s production of Hooray for Hollywood, introduced two lectures at the primary ever Southern Musical Theatre Conference in Mississippi and was a teaching intern on the International Performing Arts Institute in Germany. As well as, Corey music directed N.S.U.’s production of Oklahoma and carried out Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte with Rapides Symphony Orchestra. Within the Spring of 2019, Corey presented a live performance of musical theatre selections at Eastern New Mexico University, carried out Hysterium in Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Strategy to the Forum with the Natchez Festival of Music and joined Des Moines Metro Opera’s 2019 summer season season for productions of Bernstein’s Candide and Berg’s Wozzeck. He accomplished a two-12 months assignment as the Biedenharn Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Louisiana where he was Director of Opera Workshop, taught non-public voice, vocal pedagogy and the historical past of opera. In the fall of 2018, Corey coordinated the 2018 John Alexander National Vocal Competition and presented “The Singing Actor Workshop” at the 2018 Florida Theatre Conference. Currently, Corey is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Theory at Northwest Florida State College and Coordinator of Mississippi Opera’s annual John Alexander National Vocal Competition.