Wesner-Hoehn, an acclaimed harpist with an extensive background in performance, has released seven CD's over the past seven years, the latest being a 2006 grammy nominated album with Composer and Pulitzer Prize winner George Crumb, entitled George Crumb, Volume 9. Also to be released in November 2007, is a CD entitled Winter Moon, with Sacramento Philharmonic Flutist Elizabeth Coronata. Each holiday season, Wesner-Hoehn performs twenty live concerts of the Nutcracker Ballet with the SP in the pit. She is also the featured harpist with the Sacramento Choral Society and the Sacramento Children's Chorus at concerts throughout the season.

A native of California, Beverly started her music study at age six. Although she had become known primarily as a harpist by the time she completed a B.Mus. with an emphasis on the harp at Pacific Union College, she was also an adept performer on piano and woodwind instruments. During her elementary and high school years she accompanied choral groups, played in band and, for three years, served as assistant conductor of the band while attending Sacramento Union Academy, now known as Sacramento Adventist Academy.

As an undergraduate student, Wesner-Hoehn continued to play woodwinds in the band and harp with the orchestra and chamber groups, as well as accompany I Cantori, PUC's select choral group. For lack of a harp teacher in the Napa Valley, she commuted to Los Angeles biweekly, where she studied with Susann McDonald, noted harp pedagogue.

In her junior year, she was able to travel to Europe, supported by a Rotary International Fellowship, where she studied French and harp at the Conservatoire Royale de la Musique in Brussels, Belgium, with Francette Bartholomee. While there, she received the Jean Risler Award for Outstanding Musicianship and the Prix for Harp Performance, and was invited to play for French National Radio.

Following graduation from PUC, Wesner-Hoehn continued to take lessons from McDonald at the University of Southern California, where she completed an M.Mus. in 1981. At that time, she was also awarded the USC Musicians Award and the Delta Gamma Pi Young Teachers Award.

Wesner-Hoehn began doctoral study at Indiana University in 1983, where she continued study with McDonald, who was now the harp professor at IU. She also studied organ with Marilyn Keiser and piano with Leonard Hokanson during her work at IU. She completed her DMA with High Distinction at IU in 1989. While there, she was the recipient of the Peter Eagle Fellowship in 1984 and was awarded membership in Pi Kappa Lambda in 1986.

During her doctoral study she served as an associate instructor in the harp department for three years. In 1991, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Music at IU where her duties included harp lessons, pedagogy courses, chamber music, music history, and direction of harp ensembles. In her eight years of teaching at IU, the IU Harp Ensemble, under her direction, performed for Danish National Television as participants in the fifth World Harp Congress in Copenhagen in 1993, and with the Columbus, Ohio, Pro Musica Orchestra in 1997.

Beginning in her undergraduate study and continuing to the present, Wesner-Hoehn has given countless solos in high profile venues. She was a soloist during International Harpweek in Holland and has played at Rotary International conventions, World Harp Congress conventions, and the United States Senate Ambassadors Ball. She has played for the Friends of Music Association at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the Japanese government (Fukui Prefecture), and the Brisbane National Tourist Board in Australia.

Wesner-Hoehn has performed and recorded compositions by American Composer John Eaton and others with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. When at the World Harp Congress with her harp ensemble in 1993, she was invited to perform as a soloist with Hymnia, the Danish choral ensemble. She has also performed at Walt Disney World Epcot Previews, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and American Cancer Society Benefits.

Wesner-Hoehn has been an active member of the World Harp Congress for many years. She served as its treasurer for over 15 years and as a director of the corporate board. She was also executive director of the USA International Harp Competition for six years and later served as its treasurer.

Church music and ministry have always been a high priority in her life. She has served as a minister of music, an organist, handbell ringer, and spokesperson for maintaining higher standards in both worship music and music education in the Adventist church.

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