Patricia Green
Voice
Office: TC 419
Email: mezzo@uwo.ca
Acclaimed for “singing with a poignancy and molten resonance” (Washington Post), mezzo-soprano Patricia Green’s career includes international performances in opera, chamber music and oratorio. She has been featured with l’Orchestre de Radio-France, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic, the National Symphony (Washington), the Northern Israel Symphony, Washington Bach Consort, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra, Aventa Ensemble, Opera Parallèle, Toronto’s New Music Concerts, Bethlehem Bach Society, San Francisco BluePrint Project, Huddersfield Festival, Vancouver New Music, the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum Series, Livewire Festival UMBC, Strasbourg Musica Festival, Washington Bach Consort and Soundstreams Canada, among others. Green has worked with world renowned conductors Pierre Boulez, Reinbert de Leeuw, Leonard Slatkin, Nicole Paiement, Peter Eotvos, Reillly J. Lewis and Pascal Rophé in halls such as the Concertgebouw, Studio 104 Radio France, Zankel Hall, Glenn Gould Studio, Glazunov Hall and in more than fifteen performances at the Kennedy Centre.
Known for remarkable versatility and exceptional musicianship, “a work of ferocious difficulty...was given a triumphantly successful performance by Patricia Green - effortlessly negotiating the fearsome vocal acrobatics of the score “(Times Colonist), she has sung operatic roles of Marie (Wozzeck), Adalgisa, Dido, Ruggiero, La Principessa, and Roméo; and has sung Mahler song cycles with orchestras across the U.S. Creating over 30 world premieres working with composers Pierre Boulez, R. Murray Schafer, György Ligeti, Lasse Thoresen, Lori Laitman, Hilary Tann, Alice Ho, Shulamit Ran, George Walker, Emily Doolittle and Laura Schwendinger, Green has been heard on international radio and television. She has three solo recordings on the award-winning Blue Griffin label and is featured on 9 other recordings on Albany Records, Newport Classics, and Naxos.
A passionate educator, Patricia Green has been a tenured Professor of Voice at Western University since 2007 and held the position of Voice Area head for more than nine years. Green is in demand teaching masterclasses across China, in Bologna, Italy, the U.S. and Canada. In April 2024, she gave a day of masterclasses for the singers of the Glenn Gould School. She teaches at the summer opera program, La Musica Lirica, in Novafeltria, Italy and in 2019, created the first International Institute for Voice and Piano in Xuzhou, China.
Her many successful students have been named as Canada’s Top 30 Under 30 Hot Classical Musicians, sung roles at the Canadian Opera Company, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Soundstreams, Elora Festival and Voicebox. They have won First Prize and Audience Choice Award of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition, and advanced to the Metropolitan Opera Finals; three have won the Maritsa Brooks Concerto Competition, two have won the LCO Young Artist competition and her students are regular winners in NATS competitions. They have sung roles on scholarship at La Musica Lirica, Berlin Opera Academy, the Stean’s Music Institute at Ravinia, the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Banff Centre for Arts, Opera Nuova, Halifax Summer Opera, St. Andrew’s by the Sea, and Summer Opera Lyric Theatre.
Financial fellowships won by her students include the Rebanks Foundation, the Classical Voice Grant of the Hnatyshyn Foundation, the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation Award, several Western USRI and SSHRC Endowment awards, and three SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship awards.
DMA Students' Research Documents
Dr. Jennifer Cyr
Creative Collaborations: The Songs/Poems of Canadian Artists Leslie Uyeda and Lorna Crozier
Dr. Laura Duffy
James Rolfe's Vocal Chamber Music: A Performance Analysis and Interpretation
Dr. Andrea Willis
Research project: “Song Always Begins in the Text: A Performer's Musico-Poetic and Cultural Analysis of Ana Sokolovic's dawn always begins in the bones.”
Research Interests/Specializations
Opera, French art song, French Lyric Diction, Russian romances, Vocal music of Canadian composers, Vocal Music of living composers, Vocal chamber music
