Career Achievement in Music Award
Patricia Mooney Parker ’68

The diverse career of Patricia Mooney Parker ’68 includes performance in concert, opera, oratorio and theater. For her many successes, she is presented with Converse’s Career Achievement in Music Award.

After graduating from Converse, Patricia earned her MM from Eastman School of Music. Patricia has been a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Denver Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Spartanburg Symphony, Brevard Music Center Orchestra. New York performances include Bel Canto opera, Eastern Opera Theater, Riverside Opera Ensemble, NY Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Hell’s Kitchen Opera.

As a recitalist, Patricia has performed on concert series in many notable venues, including the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), La Maison Francaise and Trinity Church (New York City), and the St. Croix USVI Landmark Society. In 2000– 2001, Patricia lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, giving recitals and studying the Russian musical literature.

Patricia was directed by Harold Prince on Broadway in A Doll’s Life, and in the first national tour of Sweeney Todd with Angela Lansbury and George Hearn. Off-off Broadway, she has appeared in Tennessee Williams’s Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot and Chekhov’s Bear (78th Street Theater Lab). In 2008, she directed student productions of Amahl and the Night Visitors and Hansel and Gretel (Ravenscroft School, Raleigh, NC).

Patricia’s screen credits include “Sweeney Todd,” “All My Children,” “As the World Turns” and the starring role in the 2008 feature film “Mother May I.”

Patricia has taught at SUNY, Rowan State College, Shenandoah University, Kent State, AMDA-NY, and NYU.