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 ofAmerican 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.

ARTIST RESIDENCY PERFORMANCES WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON