Patrick Castillo

Patrick Castillo leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been presented at festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally, including Chamber Music Northwest, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Schubert Club, Birdfoot Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, June in Buffalo, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, Queens New Music Festival, Hot Air Music Festival, National Sawdust, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Bavarian Academy of Music (Munich), the Nuremberg Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Havana Contemporary Music Festival. Recent season highlights include commissions and premieres by violinist Jennifer Koh, the Jasper String Quartet, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, the Experiential Orchestra, Apex Concerts (Reno, NV), Emerald City Music (Seattle, WA), String Theory at the Hunter (Chattanooga, TN), Delphi Trio, Areon Flutes, the Manhattan Choral Ensemble, and others. His music also appears on Jennifer Koh’s Alone Together (Cedille), which received the 2022 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo.