Big Ears

Patricia Franceschy, a recent graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, studied with Don Liuzzi, Rolando Morales-Matos, Scott Robinson and Robert Van Sice on her last year.  She was a top prize winner at the 2004 Xalapa Marimba Competition and one of 7 finalists chosen in the Cynthia Woods-Mitchell Young Artist Competition in Houston, Texas.

In her native Mexico , Ms. Franceschy served as timpanist of the ISMEV Symphony Orchestra in Veracruz, and has served as member of the percussion section and as assistant timpanist with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Mineria Symphony Orchestra. In the U.S. she has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Curtis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra Percussion Group, and with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas.

Patty has appeared on National Public Radio and throughout Mexico, the US and in South America, and Asia, including at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires , Carnegie Hall in New York and Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City.

In addition to classical percussion, her musical pursuits extends to jazz and improvisation and include an invitation to participate in the 2007 summer intensive workshop at the School for Improvisational Music (SIM) in Brooklyn, NY, where some of her teachers included Ralph Alessi, Andy Milne, Marc Ducret, among others, as well as jazz vibraphone studies with performers and teachers such as Tony Miceli, Christos Rafalides, Joe Locke and Ed Saindon.

Patty was recently added to the faculty of www.vibesworkshop.com, a school online focused on the vibraphone. The school is run by performer and teacher Tony Miceli and involves other vibraphonists such as Joe Locke, John Mark Piper, David Friedman, among others.

Patty's projects include a Percussion Quartet that recently has been invited to perform at PASIC as a result of winning the International Percussion Ensemble Competition organized by PASIC. The members of the group include Gabe Globus-Hoenich, Mari Yoshinaga and Ben Folk.