Patsy Rogers


Patsy Rogers is an American composer and teacher who has won several awards and commissions. She is active in the International Alliance for Women in Music.
Rogers was born in New York City. She earned a B.A. and M.A. from Bennington College. She also studied at Columbia University and Smith College. Her teachers included Henry Brant, Louis Calabro, Vivian Fine, Iva Dee Hiatt, and Lionel Nowak.
Rogers has taught composition, guitar, piano, and recorder at the Antioch Graduate School, Brattleboro School of Music, Brooklyn College, Keene State College, New Lincoln School, Mannes School of Music, United Nations International School, and the University of Massachusetts. She conducts the Recorder Orchestra of New York.
Rogers has won several awards and commissions:
In addition to composing, Rogers has arranged works by Gabriel Faure, Joseph Haydn, and Arnold Schoenberg. Her own compositions have been commercially recorded by Lucille Fields on the Cambria label. She has supported the Rites of Spring Musical Festival on Long Island, as well as the Miriam Gideon Prize, which she offered through the IAWM for works by a female composer over 50 for solo voice with one to five instruments.
In his book Recent American Art Song, Keith E. Clifton noted that “composer Judith Lang Zaimont describes Rogers’ style as ‘purposefully accessible to the average listener,’ and Rogers has referred to her own free use of the tonal system as ‘floating tonalities.’”
Roger’s compositions are published by Casio Publishing Company and  Hildegarde Publishing Company. They include:

Ballet

  • Crayons
  • ''How the Elephant Got Its Trunk''

    Chamber

  • Five Duos
  • Fortune Cookies
  • Suite of Short Pieces
  • Threads: A Study in Percussion Sonorities for Two Players
  • Trio
  • ''Wind Octet''

    Opera

  • Woman Alive: Conversation Against Death

    Orchestra

  • Bridges
  • Concerto for Viola
  • Concerto for Violin
  • Fanfare
  • For Betty Crocker
  • Ostinatia

    Organ

  • Christmas Overture: Festival of Carols
  • ''Wedding March: Processional, Recessional''

    Theatre

  • A Husband’s Notes About Her
  • The Tempest

    Vocal

  • Anthem for Children’s Choir
  • Chinese Songs
  • Five Songs from Sonja
  • Six French Songs
  • Seven Macabre Songs
  • ''Womansongs''