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Biography

Patricia Toledo-Seieser holds a M.M. in vocal performance from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a B.M. in vocal performance from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, WI. She has performed both musical theatre and operatic roles including the title role in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Opera Ft. Collins, Eleanor of Aquitaine in the one-woman opera Flower and Hawk with Long Leaf Opera, the Virgin Mary in The Wise Women, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Minnie in The Match Maker, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Polly Peachum in Three Penny Opera and Catherine in Pippin.  She has also been seen with Main Street Opera, Greensboro Opera, Triangle Opera, Light Opera Works, Madison Symphony Chorus, and Madison Opera’s Opera in the Park.

She has a taught private lessons at Harper College and is currently a private voice teacher at six high schools in the greater northwest suburbs of Chicago. Ms. Toledo-Seiser has been trained in early childhood music through Music Together. As a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Ms. Toledo-Seiser was a 2011 member of the highly competitive NATS' Intern Program.  She is experienced in recital singing, giving lectures, conducting master classes, adjudicating vocal competitions and directing and has studied both classical technique and contemporary commercial singing.

As a teacher, Ms. Toledo-Seiser has taught and coached touring members of Broadway in Chicago musicals, classical and musical theater performers, and numerous rock and pop singers. Her students have done well performing at such venues as The American Girl Show (Chicago), ILMEA (Honors Choir and Jazz), local jazz venues, Battle of the Bands (local and statewide), Schaumburg and Prospect Idol competitions, Chicago's Got Talent, as well as leads in several musicals in the greater Chicagoland area. Her students have placed in local and district NATS' auditions and have gone on to top classical, commercial music, jazz and musical theater university programs in the nation. In addition, many of Ms. Toledo-Seiser's students go into careers in math, science, and healthcare. One of her goals is to inspire students to take the diligence learned in the arts and apply it to fields and careers outside of the student's previous consideration. Asides from music, Ms. Toledo-Seiser enjoys studying mental health counseling and loves being a mom, wife, and daughter.