The American mezzo-sorano, pianist and music teacher, Patricia Stowell, is Faculty member of Rockport's Bay Chamber Music School. In addition, she has private students in Bangor, Maine where she resides as an independent performing artist and chamber musician. For 20 years she directed the Kneisel Hall Maine Young Musicians Program where she continues to teach chamber music each June in Blue Hill, Maine. She enjoys presenting master-classes and adjudicating competitions, and also was a founding member of the Chamber Music Society at the Collins Center for the Arts, which she chaired for 15 years. Her European appearances include performances in Germany, Poland, Austria and Bulgaria, where she presented master-classes in prestigious conservatories. Her love for eastern European composers led her to lecturing in Moscow on composer Alexander Scriabin and the Russian Symbolist Movement, which was her dissertation topic for her doctorate at Northwestern University. |