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Patricia Brady-Danzig

Patri­cia Brady was cho­sen as one of the “Top 100 Irish Amer­i­cans of 2000” by Irish Amer­ica Mag­a­zine. New Jersey’s Star Ledger selected her as “Woman of Dis­tinc­tion” in 1999.

The New York Times called Patri­cia, “an earnest and knowl­edge­able musi­cian whose voice soared with sweet­ness and purity of sound.” Cinco Dias news­pa­per, Madrid wrote, “She ful­filled the inten­tions of var­ied styles; excel­lent tech­nique; intel­li­gent musi­cal­ity; beau­ti­ful col­or­ing; per­fect dic­tion.”  In Sicily, she was hailed by La Sicilia news­pa­per as, pro­vid­ing a “…great musi­cal expe­ri­ence of baroque and con­tem­po­rary music.”

Patri­cia Brady, “The Irish Nightin­gale” is the daugh­ter of Joseph Michael Brady of Scar­iff, County Clare and Eliz­a­beth D’Arcy Brady (a descen­dent of the poet, Edmund Burke) of Mary­bor­ough, County Laos. Her extra­or­di­nary musi­cal gifts were dis­cov­ered early by her Irish par­ents who said she could sing a com­plete melody by age 2!

Patricia’s devo­tion to music led her to form PBD Asso­ciates, Inc., (Pro­fes­sional Bi-Cultural Devel­op­ment, Inc.) her non-profit foun­da­tion ded­i­cated to help­ing musi­cians world­wide. Most recent PBD Asso­ciates, Inc. pro­duc­tion was “Patri­cia Brady-Danzig and the Three Young Tenors” held in April, 2011 at her alma mater, a reprisal of her 2006 Carnegie Hall con­cert of the same name, fea­tur­ing three young musi­cians who ben­e­fited from Patricia’s foun­da­tion. PBD Asso­ciates, Inc. also pro­duces “Ire­land on Parade”, a tra­di­tional Irish Music & Dance extrav­a­ganza every year in a dif­fer­ent loca­tion using local talent.

Pre­vi­ous pro­duc­tions of “Ire­land on Parade” have been held in Dublin, Ire­land at the National Con­cert Hall; Chicago, Illi­nois; Col­lege Park, Mary­land; Mamaro­neck, Westch­ester County, New York; Day­ton, Ohio; Brock­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts; Fair­field, Con­necti­cut; Savan­nah, Geor­gia and in 2011, in Bloom­field, New Jersey.

A beloved and devoted teacher, Patri­cia is in high demand to teach Mas­ter Classes world­wide. She has taught at North­land Pio­neer Col­lege, Snowflake, AZ; Smith Col­lege, Northamp­ton, MA; New Jer­sey City Uni­ver­sity; Jer­sey City, NJ; Florida Inter­na­tional Uni­ver­sity, Miami, FL; Duke Uni­ver­sity, NC; Music Acad­emy, Bucharest, Roma­nia; Trin­ity Col­lege, Uni­ver­sity Col­lege, Dublin; Sin­clair Col­lege, Day­ton, OH; Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity, NY; Uni­ver­sity of Nuevo Leon, Mon­ter­rey, Mex­ico; Pom­peii, Italy; Ger­many and Switzer­land, among others.

Patri­cia pre­sented mas­ter classes in the Tran­syl­va­nia City of Bistrita in Jan­u­ary 2011 and per­formed a New Year’s Spe­cial Con­cert with the his­toric Cluj Phil­har­monic Orchestra.

Patri­cia Brady-Danzig has six CDs: Shar­ing, clas­si­cal songs; Irish Jubilee, tra­di­tional Irish songs; A Woman’s Life in Love, favorite love songs; Christ­mas Magic; From Roma­nia With Love, Roman­ian folk songs sung in Roman­ian and Eng­lish; and, Ojos Verdes (Green Eyes), a col­lec­tion of tra­di­tional Latin Dance Rhythms and Song Clas­sics sung in Span­ish and Eng­lish. In 2011, Patri­cia will pro­duce her lat­est disc, Believe, a col­lec­tion of reli­gious music from around the world, and her reli­gious ren­di­tions sung with the Cluj Phil­har­monic Orchestra.

Patri­cia Brady has per­formed for audi­ences world­wide, singing in Irish Fes­ti­vals from New­port, Rhode Island; Savan­nah, Geor­gia; to Feile na Beal­taine, County Kerry; Rose of Tralee Fes­ti­val, Tralee; Din­gle, County Kerry and Beara, West Cork. She has per­formed opera world­wide from Carnegie Hall, New York to Bucharest, Roma­nia, Spain, France, Ger­many, Switzer­land, Canada and Mex­ico. Her reper­toire includes clas­sics, eth­nic and lighter favorites.

Patri­cia has appeared fre­quently on tele­vi­sion and radio world­wide, includ­ing TodayFM, Dublin, Ire­land; Cesar Lan­tigua, WWRV, Radio Vision, NJ; Adrian Flan­nelly Pro­gram, NY; Good Day New York, Fox TV; the NBC Morn­ing Show, Des Moines, Iowa; ABC-TV, West Des Moines; and Chan­nel 12 TV, Good Morn­ing Show, Edi­son, NJ.