Mr. Romano received his B.M. and M.M. in voice and conducting at West Chester University in West Chester, PA. Upon graduation Mr. Romano was hired to be tenor soloist in the internationally renowned early music ensemble, The Waverly Consort. While with the group he performed in concert series at Alice Tully Hall, The Cloisters and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. They also toured extensively throughout North and South America and made several appearances on PBS’s Shakespeare’s presentations as musical entertainment.
The East Hampton Star
Promise Fulfilled in Perlman Protégés
By Thomas Bohlert
July 26, 2007
“Patrick Romano, a faculty member of the program and conductor of the chorus, has a vigorous, dynamic conducting style, which elicited clear, crisp, well-blended singing. At times he stepped away from the podium, making strong, sharp gestures, or signaled a hush with fingers to his mouth, or put a hand on his cheeks to remind them how to shape a vowel. And it worked…”
After leaving the ensemble Mr. Romano performed with many organizations and chamber ensembles as tenor soloist. He was heart with the Rifkin Bach Ensemble, The American Bach Soloist’s, The Amor Artis Orchestra and Choir, The Dessoff Choirs, The Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Paul Hill Chorale in Washington D.C. Mr. Romano can be heard on recordings of Mozart’s “Requiem” with the Amor Artis Orchestra, Bach’s “B Minor Mass” with The American Bach Soloists and Bach’s “St. John Passion” with the Smithsonian Chamber Players.
Mr. Romano began conducting in 1993 as choral and musical director at the Riverdale Country School in Riverdale, New York. He is also a faculty member of Sarah Lawrence University in Bronxville, New York and choral director at The Perlman Music Program’s Summer Music School, a program for gifted string players founded by Toby and Itzhak Perlman. In the summer of 2002 Mr. Romano and The Perlman Music Program taught and performed with students from China at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Mr. Romano was also a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division from 1998 – 2003 and is currently choral director in the Pre-College Division at The Juilliard School.
Mr. Romano was presented with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Music at West Chester University in 2001.
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