Artist in Residence, Composer in Residence, Minister of Music – Bay View
Principal Keyboardist, Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra
Educational Consultant, Casio US Division
Anthony Patterson enjoys a multi-faceted career as a solo and collaborative pianist, composer/arranger, and educator. In April 2022, he premiered his Gloria with the National Chorale at the DiMenna center in NYC.
Patterson was Artist-in-Residence at Alma College from 1995-2020, Choir director at The First Presbyterian church in Alma from 1998-2020, and has been on the faculty of the Bay View Music Festival since 1989. Anthony began classical piano lessons at age three with his father, Richard Patterson, a jazz pianist and bandleader. He made his solo debut at age eight, playing Mozart’s Concerto No. 28 with the Lima Symphony, and four years later joined the LSO in the premiere of “The Anthony Concerto,” composed for him by his teacher, Don Hurless. Patterson later studied with Richard Syracuse, Jerome Rose, and Earl Wild.