2008 Summer Workshop

Finding Truth in Singing
Communicating The Heart Of The Music

Featuring

William Barto Jones — New York City Opera
Juliana Bishop Hoch — Loveland Opera Theatre

• Master Classes
• Acting for Singers
• Alexander Technique Floor Work
• Coaching / Score Study

For more information, contact Dr. Juliana Bishop Hoch

Workshop Costs

Full-time participants, $450.00
Full-time auditors, $250.00
Evening auditors, $150.00

Overview of the Workshop

Finding Truth in Singing will be be a week long, joint collaboration between clinicians, Dr. Juliana Bishop Hoch and Mr. William Barto Jones. The workshop is sponsored by Loveland Opera Theatre, which is a non-profit educational organization that provides opportunities for local singers and emerging young singers to perform and learn more about their singing and acting abilities. Participants in this workshop will learn many aspects of utilizing the Alexander Technique for singing, work on connecting to emotion and how to portray emotion while singing, and have the opportunity to work on their selected music with a world-class coach/conductor from the New York City Opera.

Full-time participants will attend all sessions and will sing in all parts of the workshop and will be limited to 20 (twenty) participants. A full-time audit group will be allowed to attend all sessions and will be limited to 10 (ten) participants. An evening-only audit group will also be able to attend and will be limited to 10 (ten) individuals. Auditors will not sing in the workshop.

All full time participants will be chosen by audition based on a submitted CD, DVD, cassette tape, or digital audio file. Auditors may register without audition, as long as space is available.

Teacher Certification Credit

One unit of teacher certification credit may be offered at the discretion and approval of Front Range Community College. FRCC will arrange the details of this and execute it in whatever way may be deemed appropriate.
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Biography of Mr. William Barto Jones

William Barto Jones has been a vocal coach and pianist (assistant conductor) at New York City Opera since 1990 working on a full range of repertory, from classic Mozart, Puccini and Verdi scores to twentieth-century masterpieces and American contemporary works. He regularly coaches the New York City Opera "VOX" orchestral readings of scenes from new contemporary operas presented after the close of the spring season each year.

Mr. Jones has also worked with Opera Colorado, Central City Opera, The Bard Festival, and was a fellow of the Merola Program of San Francisco Opera. He has also coached and performed much of the art song repertory and was a fellow of the Tanglewood Festival and the Schubert Institute in Austria.

Mr. Jones has had a long-standing interest in the Alexander technique, first sparked when he accompanied the studio of and studied voice with voice teacher Harold Parker of Philadelphia who studied Alexander with Kitty Wielopolska, one of the first generation Alexander teachers. He also studied Alexander with Pedro de Alcantara. Mr. Jones is currently training to be a certified teacher of the technique with John Nicholls, internationally recognized teacher of the technique. He has also studied Alexander with Christine Batten, Anne Waxman, Nanette Walsh and Tom Vasiliades. Mr. Jones is baritone soloist with St. Matthew and St. Timothy's church on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. He is a native of Houston,Texas.

Mr. Jones received the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from University of St. Thomas in Houston and the Master of Music degree from Louisiana State University where he was awarded the Distinguished Pianists Award.
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Biography of Dr. Juliana Bishop Hoch

Soprano Juliana Bishop Hoch is highly regarded as an interpreter of lieder, chamber music, oratorio and opera. Her repertoire encompasses a vast array of styles from the Baroque to the 20th century. Dr. Bishop Hoch is the founder and Artistic and Executive Director of Loveland Opera Theatre. In addition, she maintains a private voice studio in Loveland.

A native of Denver, Colorado, Dr. Bishop Hoch has performed with numerous opera companies and symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Europe and China including the Beijing National Symphony, Washington Civic Opera, the Blossom Opera Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Mississippi Opera Festival of the South, the Westchester Opera, the UNC Opera Theatre, the Eastman Opera Theatre, the John Brownlee Opera Theatre, the National Symphony, the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Virtuosi Orchestra, and the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dr. Bishop Hoch holds her doctorate degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy with an Opera Directing secondary emphasis from the University of Northern Colorado. Her dissertation entitled The Solo Songs with Keyboard Accompaniment of Robert Edward Kreutz received the Dean’s Citation for Outstanding Dissertation in 2004. She received her Master of Music in Voice Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, and her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

In 2005, Dr. Bishop Hoch and members of Loveland Opera Theatre launched an opera-in-the-schools program that teaches elementary school children about the fun side of opera. She created and presented “What Is Opera?” as an outreach project in the Thompson School District of Northern Colorado. This program is currently being offered to other schools in Northern Colorado and Denver and was performed at the Colorado Music Educators Association Convention in Colorado Springs in January, 2006.
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