Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers
George Shangrow, music director
OSSCS
PO Box 15825
Seattle, WA 98115

206-682-5208
osscs@osscs.org

 
PERFORMERS
PATRICE MICHAELS
 
soprano

Soprano Patrice Michaels concertizes extensively, appearing with noted ensembles including the St. Louis, Atlanta, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Phoenix, Czech National, and Shanghai Symphonies; Minnesota Orchestra; Chicago's Grant Park Orchestra and Music of the Baroque; Maryland Handel Festival; Dallas Bach Society; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Chicago Baroque Ensemble and Boston Baroque. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include Robert Shaw, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Nicolas McGegan, Joseph Silverstein, Anne Manson, Andrew Parrott, Zdenek Macal, Joanne Falletta and Andreas Delfs. Ms. Michaels has sung with opera companies throughout North America including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Cleveland Opera, Milwaukee's Florentine Opera, Tacoma Opera, Colorado's Central City Opera, Chicago Opera Theater and The Banff Centre, Canada. She has appeared as recitalist in Japan, Cuba, Belize, Mexico, Venezuela, Barbados and throughout North America.

Patrice Michaels has made eleven recordings for Chicago-based Cedille Records, including Songs of the Classical Age, The Virtuoso Handel and The Divas of Mozart's Day. Her recordings for other labels include Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony for London Records, Mozart's Requiem on the Amadis label, and Mozart's C Minor Mass with Chicago's Music of the Baroque. Patrice Michaels is Associate Professor of Opera Theater and Studio Voice at Lawrence University's Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin.


Emily Lunde


Recent performances:
Handel's Messiah

Internet links:
Lawrence University
Cedille Records