Praised for her “warm creamy voice” with three-octave ease, Saskatchewan-born mezzo-soprano Patricia Green has gained international renown for her remarkable versatility and exceptional musicianship. Her busy career has taken her twice to the MUSICA Festival in Strasbourg with l’Orchestre de Radio-France, to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic, and to Haifa with the Northern Israel Symphony for the opening of the Baha’i Terrace Gardens. Ms. Green performed extensively at the Kennedy Center in Washington with the Theatre Chamber Players, as well as with the National Symphony and Washington Choral Arts. She has sung at Zankel Hall, Merkin Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, at the St. Lawrence Center, Roy Thomson Hall, and the Glen Gould Studio in Toronto. She toured France, England and Canada in the opera Kopernikus by Claude Vivier. Her recital in the Glazunov Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia received a standing ovation. At the Helps Festival in Tampa, Florida, she has interpreted several works of David Del Tredici. She recently sang Handel's Messiah with the Paranjoti Choir and the Symphony Orchestra of India at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai.

As a performer of new music, she has created more than 30 world premieres and worked with composers such as Pierre Boulez, R.Murray Schafer, the late Gyorgy Ligeti, Hilary Tann, Pascal Dusapin, Lori Laitman, M. Eggert, Shulamit Ran, Laura Schwendinger, David Del Tredici, Heinz Holliger and Alexander Goehr; performing with New Music Concerts (Toronto), Vancouver New Music, Ensemble Parallele (San Francisco), Cygnus (New York), Posthoornkerk concerts (Amsterdam) and Continuum in London (UK). Ms Green has appeared with conductors Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Peter. Eötvös, J. Reilly Lewis, Zoltan Pesko, Sir David Willcocks, Reinbert de Leeuw, Paslcal Rophé, Noel Edison, and Gustav Meier.

In chamber music and oratorio, she has been featured with organizations across the U.S. and Canada including the Cathedral Choral Society, Washington Bach Consort, Library of Congress Concerts, Bethlehem Bach Society, Soundstreams Canada, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Baltimore Choral Arts, Russian Chamber Arts, Left Bank Chamber Music, Opera in Concert, United States Memorial Holocaust Museum Chamber Music series and at the Elora Festival, the Wolf Trap Festival, Scotia Festival of Music, and the Michoacan Tri-National Arts Festival in Mexico. As a member of the Theatre Chamber Players, she performed the majority of the vocal chamber repertoire at the Kennedy Centre, Smithsonian and several embassies in Washington, sharing the stage with Leon Fleisher and other notable performers.

Her performances have been broadcast nationally on television and radio across Europe and North America. Recently released on the Blue Griffin Recording label are the CDs: 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, she is currently Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Western Ontario. Her students pursue MM and DMA degrees at Peabody, Indiana, U of T, and are prize winners in the CMC, NATS and Festival competitions.

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