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Patricia McKewen Amato’s extensive operatic experience includes duties as conductor, coach, and accompanist at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) 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. A versatile pianist and first place winner of the
Houston Chamber Music Society Competition, Amato collaborates
frequently with the Baltimore Opera, Baltimore Choral Arts, Baltimore
Symphony and Chorus, Annapolis Chorale, Goucher College Chorale, Johns
Hopkins University Chorale, Chesapeake Chamber Opera, Opera AACC,
Young Audiences KinderOpera Theatre, Annapolis Opera and Metropolitan
Opera competitions, and with conductors Marin Alsop, Sergiu Commisiona,
Jack Everly, Richard Buckley, Robert Gerle, John DeMain, George
Manahan, Eduardo Mueller, Elio Boncompagni, and Mario Venzaga. As
conductor and accompanist she has performed with John Aler, James
Morris, Gran Wilson, Edward Crafts, Eric Halverson, Kevin Short, Grant
Youngblood, Anthony Laciura, Jeffrey Wells, Patrick Carfizzi, Kishna
Davis, Harolyn Blackwell, Jane Bunnell, Robynne Redmon, Gina
Rollandi, Deidre Palmour, and Chris Merritt. From 1995–2004 she served as director of Choral
Activities at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, conducting annual
performances of Messiah with
the USNA Glee Clubs, an all-Gershwin program with Nathan Carter and the
Morgan University Choir, and an all-Beethoven program with Towson
University Choirs. In 1999 she made her New York Lincoln Center
debut, conducting an all-Charles Loeffler program, subsequently
recorded by Koch International. Currently she is a vocal coach/accompanist at Towson
University, Baltimore Choral Arts, and AIMS in Graz, Austria. She
accompanies and has guest-conducted the critically-acclaimed Children’s
Chorus of Maryland, touring internationally, recording, and performing
on television with them. Recent engagements include The Carnival of the Animals with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and Carmina Burana with the Baltimore Choral Arts. Amato holds a BM from the Catholic University of
America, a MM from the University of Houston (both magna cum laude),
and certificates in lieder, opera, and chamber music from AIMS. Her
teachers include Rita Sloan, Marilyn Neeley, Brooks Smith, Albert
Hirsh, and Elena Nikolaidi. 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. |