Elise Pates
Elise Pates
Teaching Artist, Chicago
I love it when students become friends. Elise is simply delightful—she is fun, creative, and ridiculously talented. I have watched her blossom from an undergraduate with velvety tone into a professional mezzo soprano everyone wants to work with. As she shares her musicality with a new generation of students she just keeps expanding the joy of making music.
“From the first interaction I had with Amity I knew she was a person who clearly saw each student’s full potential and would do everything in her power to help you realize it. She is the reason I wanted to become an educator myself. Her tenacity, perseverance, and hope in the face of all odds lifts everyone around her and provides them with the confidence they need to accomplish anything to which they set their minds.”
From Elise
