Beverly Hay
Daniel Professor of Voice
beverly.hay@converse.edu
864-596-9002
Blackman Music Hall, Room 201

Soprano Beverly Hay, Daniel Professor of Voice at Converse College, holds a doctorate in vocal performance from Indiana University, where she was a pupil of Martha Lipton, Jean Deis, and John Wustman, and has performed with many symphony orchestras and opera companies throughout the Southeast and Midwest, as well as being an active recitalist with over forty entirely different recital programs to her credit. In February of 1991 she was lecturer at the Bicentennial Mozart-Kongress in Salzburg, Austria, and in 1992, under the sponsorship of the Bermuda department of Cultural Affairs, taught the first master classes in voice ever to be held on the island. In the summer of 2004 she taught voice and diction as a member of the Operafestival di Roma in Rome, Italy. She has also given master classes in Goslar, Germany.

Her singing translations of La Boheme and Cosi fan Tutte have been performed by the Converse Opera Theater. Her students have been winners in many competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera district auditions, Santa Fe Young Artist Apprentice program, Palmetto Opera Competition, Columbia Philharmonic Young Artist Competition, Athena Competition, and many others. Each year her students have won places in the NATS state and regional auditions, and several of her former students are enjoying active performing careers with companies such as Covent Garden, La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera.

"My goal is to help each individual student achieve his or her most beautiful individual sound in as natural a way as is possible, while instilling a love of the repertoire and of truth in music."