PATRICIA BAHIA     
Vocal and Music Business Coach

Santa Monica (Los Angeles, CA) and the World via Skype and iChat

Pop and Jazz Vocals, Performance and Technique
Songwriting, Musicanship, and Music Busines

Music Education
Cal State University Los Angeles, MM Commercial Music in Composition and Arranging, expected 2011.  Coursework includes vocal pedagogy and performance, songwriting, arranging, and music business.

Undergraduate Music Courses:  Santa Monica, Diablo Valley, and Laney Colleges; San Francisco State University, 2005-2009.

UCLA Extension Entertainment Studies Music Business Certificate Program, 2007-2009.

Vocal studies: Patti Cathcart, Madeline Eastman, Ali Akbar Khan, Mark Murphy, Terrance Kelly, Rhiannon, Jane Sharp, Faith Winthrop.

Songwriting studies: Jai Josefs, Marty Panzer (UCLA), Bonnie Hayes (Bonnie Rait), and Pat Pattison (Berklee School of Music). Graduate of Jai Josefs' Writing Music for Hit Songs program.

Other Education
♦ UC Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco), JD, 1985.
♦ University of Texas at Austin, BA with High Honors, 1982.  Phi Beta Kappa and Special Honors in Plan II Interdisciplinary Honors Program.

Awards / Contests
♦ ASCAP Expo 2010: two songs selected for juried panels.
♦ First place winner, 2010 International Song Camp contest sponsored by Universal Music Publishing in Austria.
♦ 2008 Concord Records/Marty Panzer Scholarship in advanced lyric writing.

Teaching
♦ Music: individual and group instruction on vocal technique, performance, songwriting, and improvisation. 
♦ Guest lectures on music business, copyright and songwriting at Santa Monica College and Songwriting School of Los Angeles.
♦ Corporate / Legal:  developed and presented popular educational seminars at law and technology conferences and firms; one-on-one goal-setting, coaching, and evaluation of managers and employees.

Music Business
Assist songwriters, artists, and filmmakers with career development.  Draft synch and master licensing agreements, composer agreements, song split, work-for-hire, and third party master use agreements.  Includes projects for Business Affairs Music Legal, Warner Bros. Pictures.

Performance
Patricia Bahia Singer / Songwriter:  Venues include SXSW Music Festival in Austin, TX, and Genghis Cohen, Molly Malone's, The Mint, and The Talking Stick in Los Angeles, CA.

Soloist, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir:  Performances in the U.S., Australia, Canada and Israel, with artists including Joan Baez, Linda Ronstadt, The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Ledisi, Tremaine Hawkins, Walter Hawkins and Love Center, Take 6, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Lyle Lovett, and Sweet Honey in the Rock.  Featured soloist in "Gospel Roots of Jazz," Mills College, Oakland, CA.

Patricia Bahia Jazz Singer:  San Francisco area venues including: Yoshi's, Café Claude, Paradise Lounge, Jazz at Pearl's.

Selected Discography
♦ Patricia Bahia: Long Road Home (EP, 2010). 
♦ Linda Ronstadt: Grammy-award winning: Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (choral backing vocals).
♦ Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir: Great Day: A Cappella Negro Spirituals; Rejoice! Christmas with OIGC (soloist on O Come Emmanuel); and We've Come a Mighty Long Way

TV / Film
♦ Licensing of original compositions: MTV Network.
♦ Performances (with Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir), including Emmy award-winning PSA Circle of Friends, KGO-TV.

Festivals
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; Monterey Jazz and Blues Festivals; Russian River Blues Festival; San Francisco Jazz Festival; North Beach Jazz Festival; New Orleans By The Bay; Sydney International Music Festival; Vancouver Music Festival; Israel tour.

Memberships
ASCAP, NARAS voting member.

 
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Contact Patricia’s Studio through the Contact Tab on this Website or call Patricia Bahia at 310-963-5183 or email her at CreativeMusicCoach@gmail.com