With a lifelong passion for music, engendered by her mother, Adele Paxson was Chairperson of Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts and with her husband established the Bucks County Opera.
Bachelor of Arts | Academy Awards | United States Military Academy | Russian Academy of Sciences | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Electronic Arts | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | United States Naval Academy | United States Air Force Academy | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Royal Academy of Music | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Brooklyn Academy of Music | Phillips Academy | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst | Phillips Exeter Academy | Chinese Academy of Sciences | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | National Academy of Engineering | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna |
Born in Bronxville, New York and raised in Commack, New York on Long Island, Swenson studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and briefly at Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut.