BIO
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.