Matthew Hoch

Biography

Matthew Hoch is pleased to serve a visiting voice faculty member at Schwob. Hoch is professor of music (voice) at Auburn University. Prior to coming to Auburn in 2012, he spent six years as assistant professor of music (voice) at Shorter College/University, where he taught applied voice, vocal literature, and served as coordinator of voice studies. Dr. Hoch’s students have gone on to successful careers in both classical and musical theatre genres and have won awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council (MONC), NATS, MTNA, ACTF, the Vann Vocal Institute, and others.

As a performer, Hoch has appeared as a soloist with the Oregon Bach Festival, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Vox Consort, Harmonie Universelle, the Hartford, Rome, and Nashua symphony orchestras, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and the United States Coast Guard Chamber Players. He regularly appears regionally as an oratorio soloist and as a guest artist at colleges and universities.

Hoch is the 2016 winner of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship, awarded jointly by the Voice Foundation and NATS, and is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of nine books, including A Dictionary for the Modern Singer (2014), Welcome to Church Music & The Hymnal 1982 (2015), Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer (2016), So You Want to Sing Sacred Music (2017), So You Want to Sing CCM (2018), So You Want to Sing Music by Women (2019), So You Want to Sing World Music (2019), So You Want to Sing with Awareness (2020), and The Essentials of CoreSinging: A Joyful Approach to Singing and Voice Pedagogy (2022). He serves as associate editor of the voice pedagogy column for the Journal of Singing, and his articles have also appeared in the Journal of Voice, Voice and Speech Review, Opera Journal, American Music Teacher, Choral Journal, Choral Scholar, Classical Singer, Music Perception, American Organist, College Music Symposium, Kodály Envoy, Bulletin of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music, Journal of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, The Instrumentalist, The Hymn, and The Chorister. From 2008–2016, he served as editor-in-chief of VOICEPrints: The Journal of NYSTA. Dr. Hoch has presented his research at many national and international conferences, including ICVT, PEVOC, PAVA, NATS, ACDA, IFCM, VASTA, MTNA, NOA, CMS, AGO, HICAH, SAM, NAfME, ASA, IHS, IAWM, SCSM, the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, the Voice Foundation Symposium in Philadelphia, and the International Symposium on Singing and Song in St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

He holds a BM from Ithaca College, an MM from the Hartt School, a DMA from the New England Conservatory, and a certificate in vocology from the National Center for Voice and Speech. In 2018, he presented performances and master classes in the United Arab Emirates as was awarded the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts Teaching Excellence Award.