- Bell, BSO Sing , 15 Apr 2022 in Reviews
About: David Patterson
DAVID PATTERSON (PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, THEORY AND COMPOSITION) (www.notescape.net)
David studied with Leon Kirchner at Harvard and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. He is Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His enthusiasm for teaching manifests itself in curriculum development during his 15-year chairmanship, an innovative teaching style, and in his annotated collection, 20 Little Piano Pieces From Around the World (G. Schirmer). He is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award and a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award.
Isle of Hope, his setting of the well-known text by Emma Lazarus, commissioned for the Ellis Island Medal of Honor Awards Interfaith Prayer Service, opened the 2002 celebration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City. Toshiuki Shimada and the Portland Symphony Orchestra gave the U.S. premiere of Strayhorn in Harlem (VMM label) in its centennial tribute to Duke Ellington. Eine Kleine Purple Car (Falls House Press), commissioned for the Pappousakis Flute Competition, and other works are often described as “effective and affecting” (The Boston Globe) “altogether fetching” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “lovely, lyrical and poignant” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
Articles by David Patterson:
- Radius: Messiaen and Revelation, 10 Apr 2022 in Reviews
- The Big G’s Three Bs, 07 Mar 2022 in Reviews
- BSO Reveres Concertgoers, 04 Mar 2022 in Reviews
- Sites, Sounds Around the Corner, 13 Feb 2022 in Reviews
- Convolutions, Collage, 18 Jan 2022 in Reviews
- Boston Baroque Is Back, 01 Jan 2022 in Reviews
- A Far Cry’s Activism, 19 Dec 2021 in Reviews
- Cool Times at Symphony, 30 Oct 2021 in Reviews
- Colossuses at Symphony, 01 Oct 2021 in Reviews
- Horszowski Trio’s Mixed Isolation, 25 Sep 2021 in Reviews
- Workshop or Performance Festival?, 14 Aug 2021 in Reviews
- Viano’s Live Modeling at Shalin Liu, 09 Aug 2021 in Reviews
- Ponthus on What Is Difficult and Visionary, 13 Jun 2021 in Reviews
- At the Console in BEMF Organ Mini-Festival, 10 Jun 2021 in Reviews
- Cosmos and Well-Charted Waters, 20 May 2021 in Reviews
- Saxes & Electronics Propound on Environment, 25 Apr 2021 in Reviews
- BSO Speaks French with Robertson, 19 Mar 2021 in Reviews
- Raw Emotion at Every Corner, 12 Mar 2021 in Reviews
- Unlocking the Suitcase, 05 Mar 2021 in Reviews
- Tasting Forbidden Fruit, 27 Feb 2021 in Reviews
- Back to My Seat @ BSO Online, 11 Feb 2021 in Reviews
- Occupying First Seat @ BSO Online, 29 Jan 2021 in Reviews
- Pianist’s Currents Honor Russell Sherman, 08 Dec 2020 in Reviews
- Radius Solos, 20 Nov 2020 in Reviews