Dr. Patricia Hannifan is an Instructor at Los Angeles City and Valley Colleges and a staff accompanist at Los Angeles Valley College. She is currently the organist and music director for our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Long Beach as well as a freelance piano and organ accompanist in the greater Los Angeles area. Dr. Hannifan also teaches piano and organ and coaches singers in her private studio. She has worked with Kerry Irish Productions as vocal coach/chorus mistress since 2009. Her achievements include being a four-time award winner of the Artistic Director Achievement Award for “Best Music Director” by the Valley Theater League for her work with the Woodland Hills Community Theatre; The Fantasticks (1998), The All Night Strut! (2001), The Taffetas (2006), and Nunsense (2009). As a founding partner of the LAVC SummerFest, a summer performing arts festival produced cooperatively by the music, theatre, and dance departments of Los Angeles Valley College, she served as the musical director for the inaugural performance of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret in the summer of 2010; and the 2011 performance of Anything Goes by Cole Porter. Dr. Hannifan holds a DMA in organ performance from University of California, Los Angeles, a master’s degree in organ performance from the Flora L. Thorton School of Music at the University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in music from California State University, Northridge.