She holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from St. Louis Conservatory,and a Master of Music, Radford University, and has pursued post graduate studies in various Universities. She has performed as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in mid west and south east. She continues to teach privately.

Besides serving as the Director of Feuchtenberger Management, she serves as adjudicator, is a member of the International Society of Performing Arts, American Symphony Orchestra League, National Association of Performing Arts Managers and Presenters, Southern Arts Federation, Northeast Arts Presenters, National College of Musicians, Virginia Music Teachers Association, Virginia Federation of Music Clubs, and Phi Kappa Phi.

She is a consultant for performing arts and arts management, and speaker in colleges for career days, representing the performing arts. Listed in Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Entertainment, and has been the subject of several interviews from radio stations such as WGMS in D. C., and articles in magazines such as Radford Magazine, A Music Partnership, and newspapers. She was nominated in 2000 for The Governor's Award for the Arts in Virginia.

She was born Pat Waltman in Jacksonville, Illinois, and has three sons, and four granddaughters. She enjoys family, music, travel, gardening, reading, cooking, walking, especially in the mountains, people.