Working with motivated aspiring singers as well as experienced
performers seeking to grow, Sarah Adams Hoover equips her
students with clear information about the body in singing
so that they learn to sing with ease, grace, resonance and
beauty. Through the discipline of regular practice and by
performing frequently, her students develop and test their
skills. In an encouraging learning environment, students acquire
the courage and knowledge needed to dismantle barriers to
their authentic vocal, musical and dramatic abilities.
Teaching Biography
Soprano Sarah Adams Hoover has appeared in recital, opera,
and oratorio in New York, Washington, DC, and throughout the
United States. Operatic roles include Pamina in The Magic
Flute, Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Antonia (Tales of Hoffman),
Zerlina (Don Giovanni), and the title role in Korngold's Die
Kathrin. Her oratorio credits include performances of Handel's
Messiah, Mozart's Requiem and Exsultate, jubilate, Bach's
Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio, Haydn's Creation, Seasons
and Lord Nelson Mass, Brahms' Requiem, Poulenc's Gloria, and
the New York premiere of Thomas Beveridge's Yizkor Requiem
in Merkin Hall. She has appeared with numerous orchestras
including the Saint Luke's Chamber Orchestra, the Bach &
Handel Chorale, the Palisades Chamber Orchestra, and the Amadeus
Orchestra. She has been guest soloist with Baroque ensemble
Mélomanie, performing Clérambault's Orphée
and Bach's Cantatas 209 and 211, and has collaborated on chamber
works by Bach, Ravel and others with members of the Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra. As a recitalist, Ms. Hoover has been presented
on concert series throughout the United States.
Ms. Hoover graduated from Yale College magna cum laude and
continued her studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at
Aspen Music School. She has worked with leading experts in
the performance of art song repertory, coaching with Dalton
Baldwin, Martin Katz and Graham Johnson. Training in the Baroque
style includes workshops at Innsbruck Baroque Academy and
Aston Magna Academy. Ms. Hoover has won numerous competitions
including the National Federation of Music Clubs' Young Artists
Competition, the National Association of Teachers of Singing
Artist Awards Competition, the Gretchen Hood Memorial Award,
and the Paul Robeson Competition. Principal teachers and coaches
have included Ashley Putnam, Patricia McCaffrey, Jeanne-Michèle
Charbonnet, Yelena Kurdina, Pierre Vallet, and Gillian Cookson.
In 2003 Ms. Hoover received her certification in Body Mapping
from Barbara Conable of Andover Educators, and also in Pilates
Matwork from PhysicalMind Institute. Integrating this expertise
with her longtime study of the Alexander Technique and Anusara
yoga, Ms. Hoover grounds her teaching of singing in understanding
the body in motion.
A member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing,
Ms. Hoover is currently on the faculties of the Levine School
of Music and National Cathedral/St. Albans Schools in Washington,
DC, where she also teaches voice for the Cathedral Choirs
of Girls and Boys. She was formerly Adjunct Faculty at Jersey
City State College, Master Faculty at the Wilmington Music
School, and has also taught voice at the Youth Theatre of
New Jersey, Packer Collegiate School, Tatnall School and the
Madeira School. Her students have won many prizes, including
the Delaware Contest for Young Musicians, the Austrian American
Foundation, the Arts Awards Talent Recognition Search, and
NATS, and have been accepted to many fine classical vocal
and music theater programs throughout the country. Singers
from her studio are active performers in local and community
productions. Ms. Hoover is an active clinician and vocal adjudicator:
this past season she has been a featured presenter at the
Royal School of Church Music's Summer Institute and for the
Cathedral Choral Society's Outreach Program, and has judged
voice competitions throughout the Washington area. She has
developed courses entitled "Bodywork for Singers"
and "Body Awareness in Singing," "Core Support
for Singers," as well as a one-day workshop in Body Mapping,
"What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body."
With her extensive knowledge of somatics, she is increasingly
sought after as a coach and teacher of workshops on movement
education and practical anatomy for singers.
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