Patricia Pates Eaton, a native of Chicago, Illinois, Co-Founder of the Brooklyn Ecumenical Chorus of Bedford Stuyvesant, Co- Producer/Founder of Three on 3 Music-a Harlem Music Series, former Principal Conductor of the All City High School Chorus, formerly coordinated vocal music at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Arts and Martin Van Buren High School and formerly conducted the Girls Choir of Harlem.  She received her Bachelor of Music from Chicago Musical College in Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois and Master of Arts from Columbia University. Mrs. Eaton sang with the Metropolitan Opera Association, the New York Philharmonic, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, American Opera Society, the Opera Orchestra of New York; Rome Opera, Theatre de Westerns in Berlin, toured with the Robert de Cormier Singers and the Howard Roberts Chorale. She has conducted award winning choirs in Chicago and New York City that participated in concerts, television broadcasts and recordings. As minister of music for churches in New York City, the choirs that she conducted were featured on two different radio stations simultaneously. 

Mrs. Eaton moved to New York City to work at the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students where she created the Mississippi Project, traveling throughout that state during the 1960‘s interviewing and directing students to colleges and universities in northern states where they would receive financial aid and a quality education. Later she became the Associate Director of the Cooperative Program for Educational Opportunity at Yale University. Patricia traveled throughout the south to coordinate the scholarship awards for the Congress of Racial Equality. As a New York City educator, Mrs. Eaton collaborated on the Curriculum Frameworks Arts and Humanities Committee and the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. She also worked with Dorothy Maynor as the registrar of the Harlem School of the Arts.

The Eaton family moved to the Mount Morris Historic District in 1980 and immediately began to collaborate with neighbors to advocate for the improvement of the district. This organization became the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association. Mrs. Eaton was president of the organization for fifteen years. Under her leadership the organization actively lobbied for the rebuilding of the “ruins” , a city block of damaged property that became middle income condominiums, the revitalization of Marcus Garvey Park, the renovation of the Harlem Library, contributed funds and materials to PS 144, sponsored concerts and informational community meetings.

Patricia Pates Eaton has been the recipient of awards from the City Council of the City of New York, the New York State Assembly, the Music Educators Association of New York City, North Manhattan Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Bridge Street AWME Church, the Mount Morris Park Improvement Association, the All Stars Project and was nominated Long Island University “Teacher of the Year”

Mrs. Eaton is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association, the National Association of Choral Directors, American Guild of Musical Artists, a Diamond Life Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the NAACP.