Patrick D. McCoy distinguishes himself as a choral conductor, singer and music journalist residing in the Washington, D. C. area. A native of Petersburg, VA, he earned the BM in vocal performance from Virginia State University and a Master of Music in Church Music from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University.  Juxtaposing a busy schedule between writing and public appearances, he has covered the arts for several outlets, including The Washington Post, Prince George’s Suite Magazine, The Afro American Newspaper, CBS Washington, Early Music America, Examiner.com and ArtSong Update, among others. As a respected journalist in classical music and opera, he has interviewed some of the most celebrated singers, conductors and instrumentalists of our time including operatic sopranos:   Renée Fleming, Carmen Balthrop, Martina Arroyo, Angela Brown, Roberta Alexander Alyson Cambridge, Leona Mitchell, Nicole Cabell, Michele Kennedy, Elizabeth Futral, Christine Brewer, Laquita Mitchell, Marlissa Hudson, Charlotte Wesley Holloman, Lisette Oropesa and Ariana Zukerman, mezzo-sopranos Denyce Graves, Marietta Simpson, Isabel Leonard, Magdalena Wor and Jennifer Larmore, countertenors Derek Lee Ragin and Darryl Taylor, tenors George Shirley, Lawrence Brownlee & Kenneth Tarver, bass and bass-baritones Samuel Ramey, Morris Robinson, Mark Steven Doss, Solomon Howard and Kenneth Kellogg, violin virtuosos Joshua Bell and Hilary Hahn, Broadway Stars Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Norman Scribner, Robert Shafer, J. Relly Lewis, Rufus Jones, Marlon Daniel, Michael McCarthy, Roderick Cox, Emil de Cou, Stanley J. Thurston, Andre Thomas, Rene Clausen, Christopher Bell, Scott Tucker, Eugene Rogers, Julian Wachner, Thomas Colohan, Michele Fowlin, Naima Burrs, Renée Baker and Patrick Quigley, gospel legends BeBe and CeCe Winans, rapper and founding member of the Black Eyed Peas-ap,de.ap, baroque trumpeter Justin Bland and concert organists Diane Bish, Mickey Thomas Terry and Roy Belfield, among others.  His coverage has taken him to the great musical bastions of the world including Royal Albert Hall (London, England) The Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Washington National Cathedral, The Kennedy Center and the Music Center at Strathmore to name a few.

Formerly the performing arts columnist for Washington Life Magazine (WL) he currently serves as Organist/Choirmaster at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Beltsville, MD. Notable appearances include covering the National Medal of Arts twice at The White House for WL during the administration of President Barack Obama, presenting at the 2012 African American Artsong Alliance Conference at the University of California at Irvine, Moderator: Mendelssohn Elijah Panel at The Kennedy Center, Moderator: Symposium Series at the 2014 Colour of Music Festival and Moderator: Blacks in Classical Music Panel hosted by the Coalition of African Americans in the Performing Arts and Moderator: “Our Bones Cry Out” a panel convened ahead of the concert performance of Terence Blanchard’s opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” as The Music Center at Strathmore. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America, The Dean’s Circle: Shenandoah Conservatory Advisory Board, Board Member of the Haiti Micah Project, the Sigma Zeta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity.  He was most recently named a member of the Early Music America Board of Directors and is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.