Patrick Michael Wickham
The founder of Performers Career Center and developer of VOCAL INTEGRATION, Mr. Wickham teaches singing and vocal performance. He has served as the PDP (Professional Development Program) Director of the New York Singing Teachers' Association and has taught master classes and programs in the United States and abroad. Specializing in popular opera, legit musical theatre and contemporary repertoire, his own professional performance career has spanned over twenty years in venues ranging from Broadway to international opera houses and concert halls and as a featured performer on Cunard's Queen Mary 2.
Mr. Wickham has been featured as a vocal consultant for Inside Edition, Vh1, and ESPN, Time Out, The New Yorker, Backstage and the Village Voice. His students include performers who have appeared on and off Broadway. In addition to studies in voice and composition at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and The Julliard School, Mr. Wickham has pursued studies in voice anatomy and physiology (specializing in developmental Otolaryngology) at the Bill Wilkerson Center (Vanderbilt Medical School) under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Ossoff. He has studied with Maitland Peters at the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Wickham studied for five years at the William Esper Studio (with Bill Esper directly) where he later teacher-trained and became affiliate faculty. He has also trained at Stella Adler, HB Studios, Jon Dapolito Studios and The Actor's Studio. As a composer/lyricist, Mr. Wickham's output has been concentrated in stage and screen works as well as songs. Awards have included: first place in the BMI competition (Porcelain Dreams), first place in the SETC composition competition (the Manhattan Rags) two runners-up and one finalist prize for the NATS Art Song Competition (Songs of Death and Taxes; Irish Drinking Songs for Sober Soprano), first place in the Sparks and Wiry Cries Regional competition ("Love in the Asylum), and others. He has served as the technical director of the European American Musical Alliance (Paris) and has studied with Dr. Philip Lasser and Dr. Benjamin Boyle.