quinn patrick, mezzo-soprano

Mezzo soprano Quinn Patrick makes her debut this season with the Cabrillo Music Festival as Meg in Little Women. She first performed the role of Meg last summer with the Ash Lawn-Highland Summer Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she also appeared as Mercedes in Carmen. Other operatic credits include the roles of Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Meg in Falstaff, and the title role in La Cenerentola.

Ms. Patrick has sung with the Boulder Sinfonia, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Western New York Chamber Orchestra. Her concert work includes Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody. She recently sang the world premiere of a new work by Donald Bohlen, Missa Brevis, in Buffalo, New York.

An adjunct member of the voice faculty of the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, Ms. Patrick holds degrees in music from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition, she spent two seasons as a Young American Artist with the Glimmerglass Opera, and one season with the Baltimore Opera Studio. A Region Finalist twice for the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, she has also received awards from the Denver Lyric Opera Guild and the National Society of Arts and Letters. She currently lives in Grand Island, New York.