Pamela T

Pamela is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, Benjamine Rome School of Music (B.M), New England Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and George Mason University (M.A., French).  She was a member of AFM Local 161-710 for nearly 20 years and has performed with orchestras at the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, National Theater, and Lincoln Center, New York.  She was a section cellist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Virginia's leading professional orchestra, for six years.  She also has performed as orchestral cellist with Virginia Opera (Norfolk), Roanoke Synphony, and Ashlawn Opera Festival Orchestra.  She created and also performed hundreds of school concerts for cello and keyboard; and, in 1984, she was awarded Outstanding Artist by the Washington Performing Arts Society for this work. She won a scholarship for voice at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, and there, her first voice teacher stated that her voice was "a stupendous instrument."  She also studied privately with the voice chairman at Oberlin Conservatory, and he called her voice "a truly fine instrument."  As well, she studied voice privately with a principal singer of the Cleveland Opera and voice chairman of the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory; he stated that her voice is "a beautiful instrument."  In 2003, she auditioned as cellist, soprano, and composer for world-renowned conductor, Zubin Mehta.  After her audition at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, he stated this to her: "Obviously, you are very talented."  Also, Pamela has a proven track record of promoting student success.  She has taught private cello, string classes, and string orchestras in public and private institutions in Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland. In regional ensemble festivals, her students either earned Superior (I) or Excellent (II) in all ensemble events with high commendations from the adjudicators each year.  In Baltimore Maryland, at the Baltimore International Academy, she was music teacher for two and one half years of four years there.  The first half of the year, she taught Kindergarten French Immersion. Under her tutelage as music teacher, 10 of her students were accepted into the Peabody Conservatory Children's Chorus, three among them earning full scholarships.  Pamela is also a composer and has written and arranged, among other repertory, several works for string orchestras, and these have been performed in public concerts by her students.