Beverly Hoch
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Voice
 

Beverly Hoch, soprano, has taught voice at TWU since 1999.  She has been hailed as among the most exceptional musicians before the public. She has given hundreds of recitals and masterclasses world-wide with pianists Charles Wadsworth, Margo Garrett and Warren Jones.  Appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center included several national tours.  Ms. Hoch (rhymes with oak) has been guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Rochester  Philharmonic, San Francisco, Montreal, Houston, Saint Louis, Baltimore, American and National Symphonies; BBC Concert Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Royal Philharmonic of London and National Orchestra of Spain, collaborating with such conductors as Charles Dutoit, Andrew Davis, Leon Botstein, Zdenek Macal, Roger Norrington, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Lukas Foss and Christopher Seaman.  She has performed in New York's Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls, The 92^nd St. Y, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art; London's Royal Albert & Royal Festival Halls and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center among many other venues.  She has sung over 25 operatic roles including leading ladies Lakmé, Rosina, Gilda and Queen of the Night. She has earned particular acclaim as Adele in the Strasbourg Opera's Die Fledermaus, Opera de Lyons Entführung as Blondchen and Ariadne auf Naxos as Zerbinetta in Germany.  

Ms. Hoch has sung Christmas concerts at the Myerson with the Dallas Symphony and New Year's Eve Viennese Galas with the Detroit and Cincinnati Symphonies. Summer music festivals at which she has been welcomed are Newport, Ravinia, Wexford, Marlboro, Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne, Kuhmo, Santa Fe, Aspen, Carmel Bach, American and Italian Spoleto Festivals.  

Ms. Hoch's recordings include Carmina Burana (Decca/Dutoit/Montreal Symphony), The Art of the Coloratura (IMP Classics/Schermmerhorn/Hong Kong Philharmonic), Handel's Imeneo (Vox/with Julianne Baird) and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Norrington London Classical Players with Dawn Upshaw).  She was the soprano soloist in the first-ever performance of Handel’s Messiah presented in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and shown at the Cannes Film Festival.   Ms. Hoch is a winner of the Young Concert Artists international auditions and the soprano of the distinguished Bach Aria Group.  

Beverly Hoch moved to New York City in 1978 after winning the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions and conducted her career there prior to moving to Texas and her marriage to Mike Steinel, Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas. Ms Hoch is affiliated with National Association of Teachers of Singing, AGMA and Mu Phi Epsilon. She holds degrees in Music from Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, Oklahoma City University and Wichita State University.