PATRICIA ELLEN SINGING ARTIST RESIDENCY

The Patricia Ellen Singing Artist Residency is designed for the artistic growth and exploration of multi-passionate classical singers (18 - 65+) who have not yet landed management and/or major performance contracts as solo artists. The Residency provides the opportunity for artists to create their own performance season and actively engage with their respective communities in meaningful ways that uplift not only the performer but the audience as well. While applicants with strong backgrounds in Classical music are at the heart of this residency, applicants must demonstrate a desire to explore multidisciplinary and/or multi genre expressions (theater, visual art, poetry/literature, movement, etc.) and collaborate freely with other musicians and artists.

The Patricia Ellen Singing Artist Residency is named for Patricia Ellen Moore-Turner, the late mother of Jay Saint Flono. Patricia was a classically-trained singing-artist and actress from Brooklyn, New York and a celebrated member of the National Association of Negro Musicians. Patricia studied Voice under operatic tenor Chauncey Northern at the Northern Vocal Art School (CAMI Hall) and then Musical Theater & Vocal Performance under Charlene Wynkoop-Berry and Richard Harper at SUNY Old Westbury’s School of American Music Dance and Theater. She later specialized in Afro-American Sacred Music as a leading soloist, leading numerous artistic engagements in her community from the classroom to theatrical and site-specific performance spaces.

RESIDENCY PERFORMANCES:

Recital #1: Waters and Airs: The Beautiful Voice
Saturday, April 25th from 7:30 pm (doors at 7:00 pm)
Grace Lutheran Church of Brooklyn
939 83rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11228

Waters and Airs: The Beautiful Voice is an evening of song tracing an artist's journey. It is an autobiographical meditation from the Singer’s heart. Each piece has been carefully selected for its ability to reflect some deeper longing for a place to lay down in the garden of emotion, all emotion: sorrow, spite, serenity, jubilation, fear; and by channeling them become transformed. With each section named for a pivotal message the Singer received on their journey from a neophyte to an emerging artist, this program is a home-coming back to the ever-flowing source of joy where love of music first began. After the musical program, a short intimate talkback with the audience will finish the journey. Reception & talk-back after. Program created by Jay Saint Flono, featuring Jay Saint Flono, sopranista, and Dmitriy Glivinskiy, piano. Produced by. Killer Queen Opera.

Recital #2: Good Church Boys Do Not Become Artists?
Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 7:30 pm (doors at 7:00 pm)
Gallery Particulier
Brooklyn, NY

What is Good Church Boys Do Not Become Artists? Told in three acts, the work is as hybrid as the performer behind it. Part memoir, part performance, and part recital, this monodrama explores the innate courage found in the full exploration of the self in a world designed to hide it from you. Good Church Boys Do Not Become Artists explores the marriage between words and song, calling up the question: what does it mean for a queer Black American classical singer to not just be an interpreter of music, but a creator of music and worlds, blurring the line between interpreter, creator, librettist, singer and composer into a complete whole?

The idea of the singer-songwriter has often just been seen as a maker of folk and popular music, but many classical singers have made their mark on composition, libretto-writing and the co-creation of roles throughout time, such as baritone Emanuel Schikaneder, librettist for Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and the original Papageno, was also a noted dramatist, impresario and composer; Roland Hayes, Afro-American concert singer and composer of many Spirituals, Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer of several operas and many song cycles, and even more contemporary examples such as bass-baritone and composer, Damien Geter.

Recital #3: More information coming soon
Saturday, June 21, 2026 at 7:00 pm
Pangea Bar & Restaurant
New York, NY