Patricia McPherson

Piano Faculty

Patricia McPherson is an active soloist and chamber musician in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.  Her solo performances have included appearances with the Minnetonka Symphony Orchestra, the Eastern Music Festival Young Artist Orchestras, the Raleigh Symphony, and the University of North Carolina Symphony.  

Ms. McPherson has appeared at the Oregon Piano Festival and was a regional winner and national finalist in the Music Teacher’s National Association Young Artist Competition.  In the summer of 2010 and 2011, Ms. McPherson was the festival accompanist at the Somerset International Children’s Choral Festival in Sherborne, England.  McPherson holds a M.M. degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a B.M. from Boston University where she was a student of Bela Nagy.  She also was a faculty member of the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she supervised the festival’s accompanying program.  

Ms. McPherson is the Administrative Director of the Laurel School of Music and the Saint Paul Chamber Music Institute, as well as a member of the piano faculty at Laurel.

Education:
B.M in Performance, Boston University
M.M in Performance, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Post graduate work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor