Patrick Michael Wickham
The founder of WVS and innovator of VOCAL INTEGRATION, Mr. Wickham is a medically-trained voice physiologist and one of the most-respected singing specialists in the country as a master teacher in the fields of functional and performance mechanics. He has served as the PDP (Professional Development Program) Director of the New York Singing Teachers' Association and is in current demand as a lecturer in master classes and programs all over the country 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 an vocal consultant/expert for Inside Edition, Vh1, and ESPN, Time Out, The New Yorker, Backstage and the Village Voice. His students include many celebrities and professional singers who have appeared on and off Broadway as leads and supporting players in over eighty shows nationally, as well as principal and supporting performers at tier 1 opera houses across the country and Europe. His students are signed with record labels such as Jive, Atlantic, Universal, Virgin, So So Def and Sony Music.
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 renowned Bill Wilkerson Center (Vanderbilt Medical School) under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Ossoff. He is a proud student and protege of Maitland Peters, Chairman of the Voice Department at the Manhattan School of Music.
An accomplished professional stage actor, Mr. Wickham studied extensively 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 maintains studies with Dr. Philip Lasser and Dr. Benjamin Boyle.
Mr. Wickham currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.