Patricia Pease began her professional career in Boston after earning Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the New England Conservatory. She has appeared in concert throughout various national regions, in Italy, and with symphony orchestras from New Hampshire to the Philippines. She has been praised for her interpretative powers applied to a wide repertory ranging from the Baroque to Modern periods. She has been critically acclaimed for "a splendid (and never overdone) sense of drama" with the ability to "put across a song as few singers can" (Seattle Times), and she has been characterized as "an elegant singer, one of poise and style" ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer).

Conductors and stage directors with whom Ms. Pease has worked include Anton Coppola, Robert Baustian, Stewart Robertson, Walter Cataldi-Tassoni, Paul Echols, Ian Strasfogel, Bliss Hebert, Lotfi Mansouri, and Lincoln Clark. She has also collaborated in opera and in concert with coach/conductors Michel Singher, Robert de Ceunynck (New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera), Benton Hess, and with composer/conductors Gunther Schuller (at New England Conservatory) and Salvador Brotons. She created the role of Fata Morgana in the premiere of Brotons' video opera, Reverend Everyman, which was subsequently aired on Georgia Public Television. Other radio and television broadcasts include Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with the Greater Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Converse Festival Orchestra, on South Carolina Educational Radio and Television, respectively. Chamber music appearances include works performed with members of the Seattle Symphony and with the Lark Quartet.

In opera Ms. Pease has sung roles for the Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Pacific Chamber Opera, Metropolitan Manila Theatre, and the Florida State Opera at FSU. Her roles include Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Ottavia in L'Incoronazione di P oppea, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Concepcion in L'Heure espagnole, Nicklausse/Muse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and Lady Angela in Patience, among others. Other orchestral engagements include appearances with the Seattle Symphony, Manila Symphony, Tallahassee Symphony, and the Huntington Symphony (WV).

In 1992 she received the Doctor of Music degree in Voice/Opera Performance from Florida State University where she also taught as a Graduate Assistant. Other academic teaching positions have been as adjunct faculty member in the Department of Music at Pacific Lutheran University ( Tacoma, Washington), and as Assistant Professor of Music (Voice and Lyric Diction) in the School of Music at Converse College, where she also served as Chair of the Performance Department.

In March 2000 Dr. Pease was invited as guest professor of voice to give private instruction and master classes for 20 singer s at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Leipzig, Germany. Alliance with the Hochschule, the oldest conservatory in Europe, has enhanced opportunities for OU music students to include music study as part of their curriculum when they choose to become participants in the Ohio Leipzig European Center study program http://www.ohiou.edu/studyabroad/olec

In 2003, Pease traveled to Argentina, where she led master classes and presented concerts at music conservatories in Mendoza and in Buenos Aires, together with colleagues, Matthew James (saxophone) and Alison Brown Sincoff (flute). Most recent performances include an invitation to perform at the 48th national NATS Convention in New Orleans.