Patrick Castillo, composer & managing director

Patrick Castillo leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been described as “restrained and reflective but brimming with a variety of texture and sound that draws you into its world” (I Care If You Listen) and has been presented at festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally, including 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 the world premieres of Music for Four, by Hotel Elefant at St. Bartholomew’s Church (New York, NY); Tria Peccata, by the Experiential Orchestra at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center (Washington, DC); like the tide…, by Areon Flutes at the Center for New Music (San Francisco, CA); and Living is easy with eyes closed, by Quodlibet Ensemble (New York, NY); as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center premiere of Incident for violin and piano, performed by Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian. In 2017, Patrick Castillo appeared as Composer in Residence at the Birdfoot Festival (New Orleans, LA). He is founding composer and managing director of Third Sound; in 2016, he was appointed Executive Director of Hotel Elefant. The Quality of Mercy, an album of Patrick Castillo’s vocal chamber music featuring mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer, has been praised as “affecting and sensitively orchestrated… [a] gorgeous, masterfully crafted canvas” (Cleveland Classical), and is available on innova Recordings.