Ms. Keith is also in demand as a choral clinician, guest conductor and adjudicator. Her choirs have been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall under the direction of British composer/conductor John Rutter and have made appearances for the Maryland Music Educator’s Association and numerous regional High School Invitational Choir festivals. Her vocal groups have consistently earned superior ratings and high praise at local, state and regional levels. She has served on the board of The Maryland Choral Educator’s Association and has designed and implemented choral education clinics for colleagues. She is honored and excited to be conducting the 2011 Maryland Junior All State Chorus.
Patricia Keith worked as a vocal and general music educator, mentor teacher, clinician, and curriculum author in the Carroll County, Maryland Public School system for thirteen years. In her tenure, she taught at both the middle and high school levels. From 2000-2007, she served as Director of Choral Activities at North Carroll High School, (Hampstead, MD), where she directed the 9th Grade Chorus, Concert Choir, Treble Choir, Men’s Choir, Chamber Singers and the renowned North Carroll Ensemble. Formerly, she was a member of Adjunct Music faculty teaching Applied Piano at College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
Ms. Keith majored in music at College of Notre Dame of Maryland with a concentration in both piano and voice. She has completed post baccalaureate and graduate studies in music education, voice, and conducting at Towson and Duquesne Universities and The Peabody Conservatory of Music. She has studied voice with Dr. Phillip Collister, Betty Ridgeway and Joyce Hubbard, piano with Dr. Christy Izdebski and conducting with Dr. Harlan Parker and Dr. Lawrence Edwards.
She has appeared on stage or served as Music Director in theatrical productions with September Song (Westminster, MD), Theater on the Hill (McDaniel College), Cockpit in Court (Essex Community College) and has sung with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. For several years, she held the soprano soloist positions at Catonsville United Methodist Church and Gregory Memorial Baptist Church. She has sung professionally throughout the Baltimore metropolitan area.
In 2007, Ms. Keith relocated to the Philadelphia suburbs with her family. She is joyful to be busy with her greatest production to date, building a family. She runs a very successful home music studio in Douglassville, PA where she teaches private piano and voice lessons, group piano and voice classes to children and adults of all ages. She has designed and implemented her own curriculum for Mommy & Me music, called "Music Time", that helps foster a love of music in parents and children starting in infancy. Her dream is to start a Children's Chorus in her area and to keep finding ways to enable all people to delight in the joy of music.
