Penny Hogan, Soprano
Penny, a classically trained
soprano, grew up on a farm in Scranton, Iowa. There Penny, her brother, Joe,
and her three sisters, Kathy, Becky, and Julie, were raised by her parents,
Beryl and Jean Johnson.. Some of her awards include: Who�s Who in American
High Schools, Shoshana Foundation�s Richard F. Gold Career Grant,
Metropolitan Opera Auditions Mid-Atlantic Regional Finalist, Outstanding
Young Women of America, University of Michigan; Pi Kappa Lambda, and Who�s
Who in American Colleges and Universities.
She has performed with the Anchorage Opera, Austin Lyric
Opera, Augusta Opera, the Cedar Rapids Symphony, Central City Opera,
Connecticut Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Dallas, Natchez Opera Festival, New
York City Opera Educational Program, Opera Omaha, Pennsylvania Stage
Company, Sarasota Opera, and the prestigious Carnegie Hall. She has also
performed countless sacred duet recitals with her husband, George Hogan.
Penny holds a Masters of Music in voice performance/opera
minor from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors of Music
Education/Voice from Simpson College where she graduated with cum laude
honors. She has taught voice at Texas Christian University, Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary, Oral Roberts University, Simpson College,
Roanoke College, Virginia Tech University, and as a Teaching Assistant at
the University of Michigan. She has also served as an Elementary Music
Teacher for the Cleburne (Texas) Independent School District. George and
Penny have two sons, Max and Joey and a Miniature Schnauzer named Wally.
George Hogan,
Basso
After growing up in Abilene,
Texas, with his brother, Ken, and his three sisters, Stephanie, Mona Beth,
and Julie, and his parents, Charles and Bobbie Jean Hogan, Mr. Hogan, a
classically trained basso, made his operatic debut at the young age of
nineteen for a PBS filming as �Theseus� in A
Midsummer Night�s Dream.
Some of his awards include a Sullivan Career Grant from the
Sullivan Foundation, International Finalist in the Luciano Pavarotti
Competition, �First Prize� Winner in the New York City San Francisco
Opera Auditions, a Grand Finals Winner at the San Francisco Merola Opera
Program, the winner of the Arturo Giargiari Bel-Canto Voice Competition in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a four year member of the Texas All State Choir,
and Who�s Who in American High Schools.
He has been heard in operatic roles with Austin Lyric Opera,
Baltimore Opera, Central City Opera, Connecticut Opera, Connecticut Grand
Opera, Dallas Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Lyric Opera
of Chicago, Mississippi Opera, Natchez Opera Festival, Opera Colorado, Opera
Memphis, Opera Omaha, Opera Pacific, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Orlando
Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Sacramento Opera, Toledo Opera, Utah Opera, Der
Vlaamse Oper in Antwerp, Belgium, Edmonton Opera in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada, and with L�Opera de Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the
famed Australian Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
He has also been heard in concerts at Alice Tully Hall (New
York), Town Hall (New York), and with the Anchorage Symphony in Anchorage,
Alaska, Eastern Music Festival, Houston Symphony, Lincoln Symphony in
Lincoln, Nebraska, Opera Orchestra of New York City, Philadelphia Orchestra,
Philadelphia Concerto Soloists, Philadelphia Singers, and the Washington
Concert Opera. Mr. Hogan has been heard live on broadcasts from Lincoln
Center, National Public Radio, and Public Broadcasting System Television
Specials.
Mr. Hogan is currently finishing his Masters in Music from Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary where he has received numerous scholarships. He
holds a Bachelors of Music degree from Trevecca Nazarene University
(Nashville, Tennessee), and a Performance Certificate in Opera from the
Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has taught voice and
opera theater at Oral Roberts University, French and German Diction at Texas
Christian University, and held private voice studios in New York City,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Texas, and Cleburne, Texas. He has most
recently served as full-time Minister of Music at Field Street Baptist
Church in Cleburne, Texas. In the fall of 2001 he joined the music
faculty at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor, in Belton, Texas, as a
full-time Voice Teacher and resident Artist.
