Holly Bewlay
Ho Eui H. Bewlay
Assistant Professor
(716) 878-6658
Campus Address: Rockwell Hall 116E
bewlayhe@buffalostate.edu
B.M., New England Conservatory of Music
M.M., Eastman School of Music
D.M.A. Eastman School of Music
Holly Bewlay, born in Pusan, South Korea, received her vocal training at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where she received a Bachelor’s in Music degree. Dr. Bewlay then completed her Master in Music and Doctorate in Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
She has performed numerous solo engagements with opera companies, orchestras, universities, and arts organizations including Including the Mercury Opera, Opera Rochester, Eastman Opera Theatre, Tulsa Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and many others.
Bewlay's operatic roles include Despina in Cosi fan Tutte, Juliette in Romeo and Juliette, Venere and Amor in Orfeo, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, Giannetta in L'Elisir D'Amore, and Sophie in Werther. She has also premiered new works, appearing in Ray Picken’s opera An Affair of State in a main state role as Bianca, and has performed benefit concerts for the Friends of Autistic People in Connecticut and the victims of the September 11 tragedy.
She has been a soloist in oratorios/concert works such as Bach Magnificat, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, Brahm’s Requiem, Mozart's C Minor Mass, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Creation, Pergolesi's Magnificat, Saint Saens' La Nuit, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate, Gounod's Messe Solennelle, and four times in Handel’s Messiah with the Rochester Chamber Orchestra.
Dr. Bewlay has kept her solo recital works up as well. She gave a recital for Sounds of the World Concert Series at the Black Rock Art Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut as well as numerous recitals at Eastman, New England Conservatory, Buffalo State College, and throughout the Northeast. She was also invited to perform opera roles in Urbania, Italy with the Oberlin in Italy.
Dr. Bewlay was a faculty member at the Connecticut School of Music in Westport. She taught applied voice to numerous students at the Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester. She has been working at Buffalo State College since the fall of 2005 teaching Aural Perception, Vocal Pedagogy, and Applied Voice lesson. She also judges voice competitions throughout New York State. Some of her students have successfully participated in international and national singing programs. Dr. Bewlay joined the faculty at the Buffalo State as an assistant professor the fall of 2008.
