Patricia Green
Mezzo-soprano
Associate Professor of Voice
Praised for “singing with a poignancy and molten resonance”, Saskatchewan born mezzo-soprano Patricia Green has gained international renown for her remarkable versatility, “warm creamy voice”, three-octave range and exceptional musicianship.
Her busy career has taken her to major halls across the world beginning with an acclaimed European début in Strasbourg, France at the MUSICA Festival in Ligeti’s Requiem with L’Orchestre de Radio-France, which she later sang at the Concertgebouw with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In a return appearance at the MUSICA Festival she sang Dusapin’s immense oratorio La Melancholia. For the opening of the Baha’i Terrace Gardens in Haifa, Israel, she sang premieres of oratorios by Thoressen and Shakhidi with the Northern Israel Philharmonic. Ms Green gave an acclaimed performance of Pierre Boulez’s Improvisation I (Pli selon pli) conducted by the composer at the Glenn Gould Awards, and toured Europe and Canada in Vivier’s opera, Kopernikus. Recent career highlights include the role of Marie in Wozzeck with Ensemble Parallele at the Yerba Buena Arts Centre in San Francisco and at the Astoria Festival, Oregon. She performed M is for Man, Letter from Cathy and Passeggiata in tram in America e ritorno by Louis Andriessen at the Helps Festival in Tampa, and a program of opera arias with Orchestra London.
A recognized interpreter of new music, Patricia Green has created more than 30 world premieres working with many international composers, and performing with New Music Concerts and Esprit Orchestra in Toronto, Vancouver New Music, Ensemble Parallele, Cygnus (NY), Posthoornkerk concerts (Amsterdam), Musica Festival (Strasbourg), Nouvelles Musiques Montréal and Continuum (London,UK).
Ms Green is an often featured soloist in chamber music, recital and oratorio and has sung the major choral and chamber vocal works with Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Fanshawe Chorus London, Washington Bach Consort, Library of Congress Concerts, Washington Choral Arts, Bethlehem Bach Society, Soundstreams Canada, Westchester Mastersingers, Russian Chamber Arts Society, Left Bank Chamber Music, Baltimore Choral Arts, the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum Chamber Music series, and at the Elora Festival, Wolf Trap Festival, Fox River Chamber Music Festival, the Scotia Festival of Music, and the Michoacan Tri-National Arts Festival in Mexico.
Opera roles performed include Dido (Dido and Aeneas - Kennedy Center), Marie (Wozzeck - Yerba Buena Arts Centre and Astoria Festival), Anne Boleyn (Henri VIII) St. Lawrence Centre), Singer (Kopernikus – Banff, Strasbourg, Huddersfield, Montreal Opera and Macmillan Theatre), Ruggiero, Adalgisa and Second Lady (Toronto) Principessa, and Roméo (Peabody Conservatory). She has also given many performances in of arias and scenes in concert in Baltimore, East Lansing, Toronto and London.
Her performances have been broadcast nationally on television and radio across Europe and North America. Recently released and internationally reviewed CDs on the Blue Griffin Recording label are: UNSLEEPING – Songs of Living Composers and THE ICE AGE and BEYOND – Works of Canadian Women Composers. She is also featured on six recordings with Newport Classics, Albany Records, and Live Unity Productions.
A passionate educator, her students are successful career and academic artists. She enjoys teaching French Diction and Art Song classes. Accompanied by training at the Britten-Pears School and the Franz-Schubert-Institut, Ms. Green gained the prestigious Artist Diploma in Voice from the Peabody Conservatory as a scholarship student of Phyllis Bryn-Julson, winning the George Castelle Prize. She speaks French fluently and is working on Russian.
Contact Information
Website: www.patriciagreenmezzo.com
COMPACT DISC RECORDINGS |
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THE ICE AGE and BEYOND - Songs of Canadian Women Composers UNSLEEPING - Songs of Living Composers BECOMING A REDWOOD: Songs of Lori Laitman GEORGE WALKER: Composer / Pianist LORI LAITMAN: DREAMING Song Cycles by Lori Laitman |
THE MOUNT CARMEL TERRACES OPENING DARKNESS & LIGHT, Vol. 3 MAGNIFICAT PEABODY NEW MUSIC: Open Door NON-COMMERCIAL COMPACT DISC |
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