Quinn Patrick
as Zerlina

Quinn Patrick, mezzo-soprano

The young American mezzo-soprano Quinn Patrick regularly receives acclaim for the sweet purity and strength of a lyric voice enhanced by a sizzling coloratura facility and combined with an engagingly sincere personality in a wide variety of operatic roles and concert repertoire spanning the centuries from Monteverdi to Mark Adamo.

Highlights of the current (2007-08) season include her Syracuse Symphony début singing Messiah conducted by Daniel Hege, her first appearances at the annual Messiah Festival of the Arts in Lindsborg (KS) and a return to Mercury Opera Rochester as Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

Last season she made her Lincoln Center début with The National Chorale singing Copland’s In the Beginning and Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 and her début with the Jacksonville Symphony under Fabio Mechetti, as well as her eagerly-anticipated annual series of Messiah appearances in the greater upstate New York area and a return to the Buffalo Philharmonic for a special “Mozart Birthday Celebration” Gala.

Recently she made her Carnegie Hall début in Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass and a rare performance of Brusa’s Missa Pro Defunctis with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, performed  Beppe in L’Amico Fritz with Mercury Opera Rochester in the inaugural season of the company, and was soloist in Mozart’s Mass in c with the Buffalo Philharmonic.

Other engagements included Meg in Adamo’s Little Women at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, a role she first sang in the opera’s east coast première at the Ash Lawn-Highland Festival; another Meg (Verdi’s Falstaff) with Glimmerglass Opera; Hansel in the Buffalo Philharmonic’s annual holiday production of Hänsel und Gretel; Mercedes in Carmen at Artpark and Ashlawn; and the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Buffalo’s Opera Sacra.  Her interpretation of Lulu in The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in the Buffalo Philharmonic’s Foss Festival was broadcast internationally on National Public Radio.

Other concert appearances include Mozart’s Mass in C with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra under Joel Revzen, Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic under guest conductor Robert Page and Mozart’s Requiem with the Boulder Philharmonic.

A native of Texas, Miss Patrick received her training at Trinity University in San Antonio and the University of Colorado at Boulder followed by participation in the Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program and the Baltimore Opera Studio.  She was a Finalist in the 2006 National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award Competition, a Metropolitan Opera Auditions Regional Finalist in 1998 and 1999 where she won Violette J. McCarthy and Spencer Foundation Awards, a Finalist in the 1997 National Society of Arts and Letters Voice Competition and a Finalist in the 1998 Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition.

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