Education


Pamela currently studies with Dinah Harris. Having studied also with Noelle Barker, OBE, she has coached with Roger Vignoles, Mark Markham, Ian Page, Thomas Grubb, Peter Robinson, Isobel Flinn, Christopher Glynn, Christopher Gould, Simon Lepper, Jonathan Beatty and John Reid.
She completed her Postgraduate Certificate in voice at the Royal College of Music, London, where she studied with Graziella Sciutti, Ian Page and Kathleen Livingstone. She earned her Master of Music Degree in just one year at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, studying with Phyllis Bryn-Julson. In that year she served as Graduate Assistant to the Voice Department as well as Teacher's Assistant to Professor Thomas Grubb, world authority on Singing in French. She finished the year earning the prestigious 2000 Charles M. Eaton Memorial Voice Award, given to only one graduating post-graduate singer.
Pamela also received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory, where she had been a Dean's List student every semester, graduating with a 3.9 GPA (out of 4). At the end of her time as a Bachelor's candidate she was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, the national honor society in music, and earned the prestigious 1999 Kathleen & Wallace Hankins Award in Voice, as well as the 1999 Azalia Thomas Prize in Music Theory, and a Peabody Career Development Grant.
Along with her voice major she earned a viola da gamba minor, studying with Ann Marie Morgan. She successfully auditioned for the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival's first Internship program, a scheme of mentoring, acting lessons, masterclasses and role preparation under the guidance of the festival's distinguished actors.
Pamela has sung in master classes of Barbara Bonney, Philip Langridge, Malcolm Martineau, Marjana Lipovsek, Sarah Walker, Benjamin Zander, Tom Krause, John Shirley-Quirk, Dalton Baldwin and Patricia MacMahon.
Pamela has participated in many renowned apprentice programs in the United States and Europe, including the Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum, Salzburg; London Master Classes at the Royal Academy of Music; Operaplus, Belgium; Utah Festival Opera Company, Aspen Opera Theatre Company, and the Brevard Music Center, USA.
Pamela speaks fluent French, conversational Polish and German, and sings in English, French (including Auvergne dialect), Italian, German, Polish, Russian, Czech, Spanish, Finnish, Old English and Latin.