Meet Your Teacher!

Meet Your Singing Teacher!

Bonnie Hoke-Scedrov is a soprano whose career has spanned international opera and recital stages and 25 years of teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Reviewers have consistently praised her. The Washington Post hailed her as “a charming and stylish singer,” while Classical New Jersey extolled her “rapturously sung” interpretations and “gorgeous melismas” and noted her Satie was “rendered to perfection…capturing every nuance” and bringing “the meaning of this passionate text vividly to life.” Opera News praised her “consistent warmth,” and Austria’s Neue Kronen Zeitung singled her out as “ahead of all,” with radiant Mozart interpretations.

After winning the 1991 Salzburg International Mozart Competition, her career took flight. Her operatic repertoire includes Mimi in La Bohème (Vienna Chamber Opera), Countess in Le nozze di Figaro (Pensacola Opera, Gulf Coast Opera, Natchez Opera), Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (Ash Lawn-Highland Opera), St. Teresa I in Four Saints in Three Acts (Aspen Opera Theater), and Micaela in Carmen (Westfield Symphony). Her longtime artistic partnership with pianist Dalton Baldwin featured recitals across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and a recording of A Lover’s Promise: Songs of Johannes Brahms.

Her academic and artistic engagements include lectures and recitals at Keio University (Tokyo), Ferris Women’s College (Yokohama), Rowan University, Georgia State University, Westminster Choir College, and the French, Polish, and Romanian Embassies in Washington, D.C. She holds degrees from Oberlin College and Florida State University, with fellowships from the Franz Liszt Institute in Weimar, the Académie Musicale de Villecroze in Provence, and the Aspen Music Festival. Ms. Hoke-Scedrov’s biography has appeared since 2008 in Marquis Who’s Who in America.

Hoke-Scedrov has been a devoted mentor to generations of singing students at the University of Pennsylvania. Many began studying with her as undergraduates in the College House Music Lessons Program and have continued singing long after graduation. One former student, now in medical school, gives specialized concerts for the medical community and sings in cancer wards for children—an example of Hoke-Scedrov’s teaching philosophy that music should serve as a lifelong, transformative force.

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