Miss Putnam is a faculty member in the College for the following department(s) and division(s): Voice (College) Telephone  (212) 662-6252 E-mail  pasherpbj@aol.com

Teaching Experience: Manhattan School of Music, Voice Faculty (2001– ) Eastman School of Music, Visiting Professor of Voice (2001–2002) DePaul University School of Music, Associate Professor of Voice (1999–2000) Private studio, New York City (1996–present) Professional Opera Singer: Soprano (1976–1999) Theater, Orchestras, and Auspices: Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Berlin Staatsoper, La Fenice, Cologne Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Santiago Opera, Brussels Opera, Netherlands Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington Opera, San Diego Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Miami Opera, Opera Colorado, Zurich Opera, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Scottish Opera, Nice Opera, Strasbourg, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Geneva, San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera. New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Concertgebouw, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Symphony, Denver Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque, Columbus Symphony, Duluth Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Portland Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Tacoma Symphony, Austin Symphony, St. Louis Symphony. Recitals: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Denver, Los Alamos, Frankfurt, Encino, Los Angeles, Columbia, Albany, La Jolla Chamber Music Festival. Honors and Awards: Invitations to sing at the White House for Presidents Carter and Reagan, University of Michigan Athena Award for Distinguished Women Graduates (1995), University of Michigan School of Music Alumni Society Citation of Merit (1985), Washington Opera Artist of the Year Award (1979), cover of Opera News magazine (1979), Rockefeller Foundation Award (1977), National Opera Institute Award 91976), Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, First Place (1976). Recordings: Phillips, La bohème (1979); Colin Davis, cond.) Moss Music, Mary, Queen of Scots (1978); Peter Mark, cond.) Videotapes: German Television, Street Scene (1994); prod. Zambello Glyndebourne, La clemenza de Tito (1991); prod. Hytner, cond. Davis) BBC, Così fan tutte (1985); prod. Miller Glyndebourne, Arabella (1984); prod. Cox, cond. Haitink Master Classes: University of Michigan, Santa Fe Opera, Interlochen Center for the Arts, New York audition arias/Strauss songs) Adjudication: South Carolina district audition, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2001); New England regional finals, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2000); Rocky Mountain Region districts, Metropolitan Opera National CouncilAuditions (1999); Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies (1998-1999). Education: Master’s degree in voice performance, December 1975, University of Michigan School of Music Bachelor’s Degree in voice performance, May, 1974, University of Michigan School of Music Apprenticeships, 1973 and 1975, Santa Fe Opera Interlochen Center for the Arts, summers 1968–1972, flute and voice-double major. Manhattan School of Music faculty since 2001.

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