Quinn Patrick Ankrum
Dr. Quinn Patrick Ankrum joined the Voice Faculty in
2010. As a
performer, she is known as Quinn Patrick.
She 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.
This season (2011-2012), she looks forward to her
first appearance at the Winter Park Bach Festival, where she
will sing the Magnificats
of J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, as well as her début with the
Houston Symphony Orchestra singing Schubert's Mass in B-flat
Major. Last season
(2010-2011), she made her Dallas Opera début as Giovanna in
Rigoletto and
collaborated with conductor Richard Bjella and the choirs at
Texas Tech University to record Aaron Copland’s
In the Beginning. In
recent seasons, she sang the title role in
La Cenerentola with
the Lyric Opera of Jacksonville, Maddalena in
Rigoletto with Nickel
City Opera of Buffalo, and was the soloist in Brahms’s
Alto Rhapsody with
conductor Joseph Flummerfelt in Rochester, New York. She will
reprise the Alto Rhapsody
this season with conductor Karl Dent and the Matador Singers in
Lubbock, Texas. She recently gave performances of
Messiah with the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where she returned after making
her Elijah debut with
Maestro Robert Page and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh in
2008. Other recent highlights include a residency with the
Florestan Recital Project for a week of teaching and performing,
Messiah with the
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus,
Candide with the
Mansfield Symphony, and her return to Mercury Opera Rochester as
Rosina in Il Barbiere di
Siviglia. This was her third appearance with Mercury
Opera, having performed the roles of Zerlina in
Don Giovanni (2008)
and Beppe in the company’s inaugural production,
L’Amico Fritz. Recently 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 the baton of Fabio Mechetti. 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.
Other engagements included Rocky Ridge Music Center
(guest artist), Artpark, Buffalo Philharmonic, Boulder
Philharmonic, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music,
Chautauqua Festival, Syracuse Symphony, Western New York Chamber
Orchestra, the annual Messiah Festival of the Arts in Lindsborg
(KS), the Ash Lawn-Highland Festival, and Glimmerglass Opera.
A native of Texas, Dr. Ankrum 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, with further studies at the Eastman
School of Music. She was the third place Winner in the
Friends of Eastman Opera Competition in 2007, a National
Finalist and second place Winner in the 2006 National
Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards 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 1998 Denver Lyric Opera Guild
Competition, and a Finalist in the 1997 National Society of Arts
and Letters Voice Competition.
For further information, please visit www.quinnpatrickmezzo.com.
To contact Dr. Ankrum, email her at qpatrick.ankrum@ttu.edu.