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About Rebecca Patterson

Teacher

Rebecca Patterson brings to her voice instruction over thirty years of teaching and performance experience. She works with both professional and amateur singers and actors, who perform in musical theatre and opera in Chicago. Rebecca is certified in the LoVetri Method through the Institute for Contemporary Commercial Music Pedagogy and has received training in Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Performer

Rebecca has appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, Masterwork Chorale of New York, International Church Music Festival (Germany), and in concert throughout the Midwest. Operatic roles include Lauretta, the ingénue in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme and Amahl, the young crippled boy in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Conductor

Rebecca conducts the Chicago Bar Association Chorus. Since its inception on 2006, she has prepared the chorus for performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Faure’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, Poulenc’s Gloria and Orff's Carmina Burana. In addition to her work with the CBA Chorus, Rebecca conducts workshops on vocal technique for choral singers. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association.