Mr. Hogan holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Trevecca Nazarene University (Nashville, TN), an Opera Performance Certificate of Merit from the Academy of Vocal Arts in (Philadelphia, PA), and a Master of Music from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He has also accumulated more than twenty-five years of experience as an International Operatic Singer.

His operatic debut occurred at the young age of nineteen as Theseus in a PBS filming of Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream. He has since had the pleasure of performing in the famed Sydney Opera House under the baton of Sir Richard Bonynge, in Europe, and with more than thirty opera companies throughout North America. His New York City debut was the PBS-televised/EMI Recording of the Rossini Gala with such great artists as Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Frederica von Stade, and others. During his career he has appeared on PBS, NPR and Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts. He has been a guest soloist with Symphony orchestras around the United States under the batons of Christoff Eschenbach, Erich Leinsdorf, and Roger Wagner, to name a few.  He can be heard on the EMI and the APAD recording label.

Mr. Hogan has been the winner and recipient of many vocal honors, including the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, George London Vocal Competition, Richard Tucker Voice Competition, Arturo Giargiari Bel Canto Voice Competition, San Francisco Merola Opera Program Grand Finals.  He has also received grants from the William Matthew Sullivan Career Grant, and the San Francisco Opera to pursue vocal studies with famed Metropolitan Opera Bass and Indiana University Distinguished Professor emeritus of music, Giorgio Tozzi.  Other notable vocal instructors include Dr. David Blackburn, Armen Boyajian, Regine Crespin, Jerome Hines, and Nancy Williams. 

He is an active member of the TEXOMA NATS organization where he has performed as a Guest Artist presenting The Basso Cantante Voice.  Since coming to Mary Hardin-Baylor in 2001 he has placed seven voice students in the winner's circle at NATS, including four 1st Place winners and one with honors.  His young opera students have also enjoyed appearances with the Amarillo Opera, the Chautauqua Opera Festival, the New Jersey Opera, Oberlin in Italy, the Pensacola Opera, and the San Antonio Opera.

Mr. Hogan continues to perform on the operatic stage and in concert, as well as recital and Master Class settings.

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"Thanks to George Hogan's gift of humor, I heard an audience laugh for the first time in many a year during Leporello's catalogue recitation." 
Opera Magazine

"George Hogan's voice has a clear Cesare Siepi-like resonance and timbre."
Opera Canada

"Hogan has oaken weight in his bass. It is also quite flexible and possesses a fetching cantabile warmth."
San Francisco Chronicle

"George Hogan was a commanding Bertram." 
The New Yorker

"The clarity of his lower register was riveting."
The Philadelphia Inquirer

"George Hogan's Basilio was full of resonant deviousness."
Opera News

"George Hogan starred in the performance...we loved him and we are star-struck. Moving as the aged knight battling windmills, stirring as the young man trapped by the Spanish Inquisition, he was unabashedly magnificent. When he finished 'The Impossible Dream,' tears actually were glistening in eyes around us."
The Natchez (MS) Democrat