Beverly
Soll holds degrees in piano from the
University of Illinois and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of
Maryland. She has served on the faculty
at the State University of New York-Geneseo, George Mason University (Virginia),
Wayne State College (Nebraska) and Salem State University (Massachusetts). As a chamber musician, accompanist, and solo
pianist, she has performed throughout the United States and in Germany.
In addition to her college and university teaching, Dr. Soll has throughout her career performed as a free-lance musician, including work at the Eastman School of Music and as assistant coach with the Opera Theatre of Rochester. Later in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, she maintained a coaching/accompanying studio of professional and semi-professional singers and instrumentalists and participated in numerous performances, including several at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She directed the Scenes Group of Washington (an opera scenes group) and performed with Da Capo (a piano trio).
While on the music faculty of Wayne State College, part of her duties included management of the professional performance series. She was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Outreach, a multi-faceted office that hosted guest artists and multicultural scholars and festivals, a Sunday afternoon lecture series, a First Fridays series for senior citizens, and a host of outreach programs for area schools. This experience led to her work from 1999-2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire as coordinator of arts and special events.
Scholarly publications include articles on Aaron Copland and Max Reger, a three-volume collection of arias from the operas of African American composer William Grant Still, and a 2005 book on Still’s operas, I Dream a World, published by the University of Arkansas Press.
Currently, an adjunct music faculty member at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts, Dr. Soll also works as a free-lance pianist/coach on the North Shore and in the Boston metropolitan area. She performs frequently with New England Light Opera and is the artistic director of the Boston Singers’ Resource Recital Series.
She lives in an 1850-vintage home in Rockport, Massachusetts, with her organist husband, Andy, and three fabulous felines – Aggie, Moishe and Rex.
In addition to her college and university teaching, Dr. Soll has throughout her career performed as a free-lance musician, including work at the Eastman School of Music and as assistant coach with the Opera Theatre of Rochester. Later in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, she maintained a coaching/accompanying studio of professional and semi-professional singers and instrumentalists and participated in numerous performances, including several at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She directed the Scenes Group of Washington (an opera scenes group) and performed with Da Capo (a piano trio).
While on the music faculty of Wayne State College, part of her duties included management of the professional performance series. She was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Outreach, a multi-faceted office that hosted guest artists and multicultural scholars and festivals, a Sunday afternoon lecture series, a First Fridays series for senior citizens, and a host of outreach programs for area schools. This experience led to her work from 1999-2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire as coordinator of arts and special events.
Scholarly publications include articles on Aaron Copland and Max Reger, a three-volume collection of arias from the operas of African American composer William Grant Still, and a 2005 book on Still’s operas, I Dream a World, published by the University of Arkansas Press.
Currently, an adjunct music faculty member at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts, Dr. Soll also works as a free-lance pianist/coach on the North Shore and in the Boston metropolitan area. She performs frequently with New England Light Opera and is the artistic director of the Boston Singers’ Resource Recital Series.
She lives in an 1850-vintage home in Rockport, Massachusetts, with her organist husband, Andy, and three fabulous felines – Aggie, Moishe and Rex.