Originally from the United States, PATRICIA NAGLE, after receiving her Bachelors Degree in Performance at the University of Massachusetts, came to France to perfect flute studies with Maxence Larrieu and Michel Debost, while participation in the Master Classes of Jean-Pierre Rampal and Andras Adorjan.
Engaged directly thereafter by the very well known French conductor, Michel Plasson as principal flute in the National Orchestre du Capitole of Toulouse, which led her to performances in Carnegie Hall, New York and the Kenedy Arts Center in Washington, D.C., following after, she was engaged by the National Orchestre of Bordeaux-Aquitaine directed by Roberto Benzi in France.
Internationally, she has been invited regularly to perform as principal flute by the Foundation Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon - Portugal, under the direction of Muhai Tang, Philippe Bender and Richard Hickox, Wolfgang Sawallisch...
Patricia Nagle has performed and recorded under the direction of such illustrious conductors as Zdenek Macal, Eliahu Inbal, John Elliott Gardiner, Kurt Mazur, Klaus Weise, Yann-Pascal Tortelier, Jesus Lobez-Cobos and Nello Santi.
Very much involved with classical as well as the contemporary repertoire, she has participated in creations, many recordings notably with EMI, television broadcasts and radio programmes throughout Europe. Her interest in the Music of the 20th century has led her to create and premier works written for her by such composers as Anthony Girard, Vincent Paulet and Alain Besson.
She has also appeared as soloist with international orchestras touring in Germany and France.
Presently, she is member of the instrumental ensemble comprised of soloists, "A Ciel Ouvert" diercted by Bernard Calmel and is also member of the Romantic European Orchestra performing at the 'Salle Gaveau', Paris.
Very involved with research and diffusion in the press concerning her profession and pedagogy, she has interviewed James Galway, Michel Debost, and Joanne Bennett... Also she has written articles concerning physical therapists for musicians, and specifically about the new quarter tone flute, the "System Kingma" invented by the flutemaker Eva Kingma in Holland. Where in fact she owns and performs on a Kingma system Alto flute made for her by this expert craft flutemaker.
Currently, Patricia Nagle is also professor at Conservatoire Maurice Ravel in Levallois Perret and the internationally known Conservatory, Ecole Normale de Musique-Alfred Cortot in Paris, and the Conservatory Darius Milhaud - Paris 14.