Patrick McCreless

In May of 2007 Patrick McCreless gave a series of lectures at the Metropolitan Opera on Wagner’s Ring, in association with the Met’s bringing the Kirov Ring to New York in July of that year.  He will also be lecturing at the Met in the spring of 2009, in conjunction with the last performances of the Otto Schenk Ring.  In February of 2008 he gave the keynote talk, “Performance and Analysis:  A Counterexample?” at the annual conference of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory in Maastricht, Netherlands.  And in May of 2008 he was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Medal by the Graduate School of the University of Rochester.