Ho Eui Holly Bewlay, D.M.A. (she/her/hers) 배 호 의

Ho Eui Holly Bewlay, D. M. A. (she/her/hers)
배 호 의
Professor
Vocal Area Coordinator
Music Department
Buffalo State University
State University of New York

Audio 

Holly: Twenty-four Italian Songs and Arias

Download audio (MP3): Holly Bewlay performs “Loved One, Beloved” from Tan Dun’s opera Tea

Download audio (MP3): Holly Bewlay performs “Schilflied” (Song Amongst the Reeds) from Alan Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs)

Download audio (MP3): Holly Bewlay performs “Die Nachtigall” (The Nightingale) from Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs)

Biography

Dr. Holly Bewlay received her vocal training at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, where she received a B.M. Dr. Bewlay then completed her M.M. and D.M.A. at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

She is a SUNY Applied Learning fellow, a SUNY Service-Learning fellow, and won a Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning(CASTL) fellowship.   

Presently she serves as a professor in music at Buffalo State University. At the university, she coordinates the voice program, teaches applied voice, and vocal pedagogy. She was awarded as a faculty of an Outstanding Undergraduate Course for Service Learning from the Civic Engagement Office of Buffalo State University, and Educator of the Year from OperaBuff, NY.

She has served as a co-artistic director, stage director of an opera workshop program, Cadenza Workshop, and collaborated as an artist for Professional Development of Arts Educators in Buffalo. Dr. Bewlay is an active researcher in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and the author to “Building Healthy Vocal Habits” in The First-Year Music Major Strategies for Success by Routledge. Her research in SoTL includes “Using an Assessment Rubric as a Tool to Increase Student Motivation in Applied Voice,” and “Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the Arts.” Currently she is serving as a performing artist, a co-founder, and a co-director for Tormenta D’Amore, a female baroque music ensemble.

Korean American soprano, Holly Bewlay has performed numerous solo engagements with opera companies, orchestras, universities, chamber ensembles, and arts organizations.

Solo Engagement Appearances

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Connecticut Choral Artists
Mercury Opera
Opera Rochester
Eastman Opera Theatre
Oberlin in Italy
Tulsa Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Buffalo Opera Unlimited
Opera-Lytes
Nickel City Opera
The Cheektowaga Symphony
The Amherst Symphony
Greece Symphony
Assisi Performing Arts
Camerata di Sant’Antonio
many others.

Operatic Roles

Cio cio san from Madama Butterfly
Rosalinde from Die Fledermaus
Countess from Le Nozze di Figaro
Leonora from Il Trovatore
Leonora from La Forza Del Destino
Desdemona from Otello
Despina in Cosi fan Tutte
Juliette in Romeo and Juliette
Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief
Sophie in Werther
Giannetta in L'Elisir D'Amore
Venere and Amor in Orfeo.  

Oratorios Soloist

Beethoven’s Symphony 9
Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 Lobgesang
Bach’s B Minor Mass
Brahm’s Requiem
Mozart's C Minor Mass
Haydn's Creation
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
Mendelssohn's Elijah
Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass
Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate
Bach’s Magnificat
Gounod's Messe Solennelle
Vivaldi's Gloria
Mozart’s Solemn Vespers
Handel’s Messiah with the Rochester Chamber Orchestra (four appearances).

Recitals and Masterclasses
Eastman
New England Conservatory
Buffalo State University
Colorado State University
Columbus State in Georgia
University of Memphis
Auburn University
Assisi Performing Arts
throughout the USA, Italy, and South Korea