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| Patricia Amato |
Patricia McKewen Amato’s extensive operatic experience includes duties as conductor, coach, and accompanist at the AIMS Institute in Graz, Austria, the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina, the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and the Young Victorian Theatre in Baltimore. She has served as assistant music director of the Baltimore Opera Company, music director of the Baltimore Opera Touring Company, assistant conductor and chorus master for Washington Summer Opera, music director and conductor for the Annapolis Opera, Maryland Lyric Opera, Brevard Music Festival, Opera Americana in Virginia, the Washington Savoyards, Rep Stage, and the Cumberland Valley Chamber Orchestra in Pennsylvania. From 1995 –2004 she was director of Choral Activities at Hood College, in Frederick Maryland, collaborating annually with the USNA Glee Clubs in conducting The Messiah; with Nathan Carter and the Morgan University Choir in 1998, conducting an all-Gershwin program; and with Towson University Choirs in 2004, conducting an all-Beethoven program. In 1999 she made her New York Lincoln Center debut, conducting an all-Charles Loeffler program, subsequently recorded by Koch International. A versatile pianist, Ms. Amato accompanies and has guest-conducted the critically-acclaimed Children’s Chorus of Maryland, touring internationally, recording, and performing on television with them. She collaborates frequently with the Annapolis Chorale, Goucher College Chorale, Johns Hopkins University Chorale, Baltimore Choral Arts, Baltimore Symphony and Chorus, Baltimore Opera, Young Audiences of Maryland KinderOpera Theatre, Annapolis Opera and Metropolitan Opera competitions. Recently, Ms. Amato performed The Carnival of the Animals with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and Carmina Burana with the Baltimore Choral Arts. Currently, Ms. Amato is a coach/accompanist for the voice division at Towson University, a member of the graduate music education faculty at Loyola College, directing the Choral Studies program, and a vocal coach at the American Institute of Musical Studies, in Graz, Austria. Ms. McKewen Amato holds a BM from the Catholic University of America (magna cum laude), a MM from the University of Houston (magna cum laude), and certificates in lieder, opera, and chamber music from the American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria. She is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who Among American Women. She lives in Baltimore with her husband Sam and their three daughters. Office: CA3095 |