Mr. Hochstuhl maintains a diverse studio that includes adolescent singers beginning their artistic journey as well as post-graduate professionals. His professional clients have performed as soloists with major American and international opera houses, including the Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper in Steinbruch, The Metropolitan Opera, Detroit Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Opera Baltimore, Portland Opera, New York City Opera, and Opera Birmingham. Younger singers have pursued BM degrees in Voice Performance and BFA degrees in Musical Theatre at Boston University, Rider University, Syracuse University, Elon University, The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Montclair State University, and Westminster Choir College. High school-aged musical theatre singers have participated in summer programs with the Broadway Theatre of Pitman, Paper Mill Playhouse, the Levoy Theater, McCarter Theater, and the Count Basie Theater and are regularly featured in leading roles in their high school and community theatre productions. Additionally, high school singers from his studio have placed in NJ NATS competitions and received the NJ NATS Doris Lenz Memorial Scholarship.

As a performer, Mr. Hochstuhl performs a diverse array of operatic and musical theatre repertoire ranging from baroque opera through contemporary musical theatre. Mr. Hochstuhl has performed as a soloist with several notable German opera houses including the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Opernhaus Wuppertal, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Aalto Musiktheater Essen, Oper Dortmund, and the Stadttheater Giessen. Recent performance highlights include his performances as Tempo in Händel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Wiesbaden), Orpheus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in der Unterwelt (MiR Gelsenkirchen), Pontius Pilate in Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar (Opernhaus Wuppertal), and Heinrich in Wagner’s Tannhäuser (Essen). As a concert soloist, he as performed the tenor solos in both Bach’s Matthäus-Passion and Johannes-Passion, Händel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Missa in angustiis, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. He has also premiered 3 world-premiere commissions as tenor soloist including Sedek’s Lux Noctis, Verlingieri’s The Courtship, and Fitzmartin’s Mass.

Mr. Hochstuhl earned his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Master of Music in Voice Performance & Pedagogy at the Westminster Choir College located in Princeton, New Jersey. After completing his degrees, Mr. Hochstuhl apprenticed with several American opera houses including Sarasota Opera, Opera Idaho, the Caramoor Festival, Teatro Nuovo, and the Hawai’i Performing Arts Festival. After relocating to Germany, Mr. Hochstuhl completed a 2-year residency in the Opernstudio NRW (Nordrhein Westfalen) where he was featured in masterclasses with Dame Ann Murray, Helmut Deutsch, Claudia Barainsky, David DQ Lee, Elena Kerl, and Gudrun Pelker. In addition to his formal degrees, Mr. Hochstuhl speaks fluent German, verified with a C1 Goethe-Zertifikate, after intensive studies at Die Deutsche Schule (Neukölln) and the Berline Volkshochschule. Mr. Hochstuhl has also extensively studied Italian through the community language school La Casa di Dorothea, located in Princeton, NJ. Complementing his voice pedagogy studies, he is a three-time alumnus of the Westminster Voice Pedagogy Institute and has earned an Associate of Science, with coursework emphasizing human anatomy and physiology, chemistry, biology, physics, and psychology, from Luna Community College. He also presented his original research on formant-harmonic tracking through the treble voice primo passaggio at The Voice Foundation in Philadelphia. Though he dedicated his career to singing, he was accepted to Indiana University for flute performance and continues to perform on flute in a lighter capacity, with his playing featured on the Grammy-nominated album Carole by James Whitbourn. Beyond music, he has a deep appreciation for philosophy, psychology, and medicine, often exploring the intersections of art, science, and the human experience. In his free time, you will often find him gazing at the shoreline of the New Jersey coast with his beloved Havanese, Cole, by his side.