Patrice Pastore is a Professor of Voice at Ithaca College and a Visiting Professor of Voice at Cornell University. She specializes in contemporary music performance and has worked with composers like Libby Larsen, Chen Yi, Lukas Foss, and George Crumb, to name a few. She has been an active vocal improviser for the last 20 years. During her teaching career Patrice has taught studio voice, foreign language diction, vocal pedagogy, French art song, and vocal improvisation. Besides her positions at Ithaca College and Cornell University she has been a faculty member at New England Conservatory, Rising Star Singers Institute, the Grandin Festival at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and OperaWorks. Ms. Pastore believes that vocal improvisation is a gateway to vocal freedom, vocal health, creativity, and lots of laughter. In her spare time, Patrice enjoys reading mystery novels, swimming, and writing poetry.
M.M., New England Conservatory of Music; M.A., Tufts University; B.A., Bryn Mawr College. Studies with Barbara Honn, Ann Baltz, Wesley Balk, Jan de Gaetani, Mignon Dunn, Joan Dorneman, Joan Heller, Susan Clickner, Phyllis Curtin, Ellen Repp. Study at Tanglewood, OperaWorks, Musicians Club of America, International Institute of Vocal Arts, Wesley Balk Institute. Faculty member and performing artist, Rising Star Singers Institute, Grandin Festival. Founding member, SATI. Formerly, faculty, Clark University, New England Conservatory of Music. Work with Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, George Crumb, Lukas Foss, John Harbison, Chen Yi, Libby Larsen. Performances with Birch Creek Summer Festival, Grandin Festival, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Ithaca Opera, Hangar Theatre, Opera Theatre of Lucca. Specialist in contemporary vocal music. Recordings for Spectrum, Golden Crest.
Patrice’s Cornell NetID is pep58.