SOUTH BAY STRING ACADEMY - Key Persons

Joel Pattinson is a two-time graduate of the University of Wyoming with a BA and an MM in Violin Performance with specialties in String Pedagogy, Renaissance and Baroque Theory, and Baroque and Classical Performance Practice. His teachers included Brian Hanly, Javier Pinell, Sherry Sinift, Roy Malan and Neil Weintrob. In that time participated in master-classes with performers like the Lark and Emerson String Quartets. In addition to performing with the Fort Collins and Cheyenne Symphony Orchestras, Joel was concertmaster of the UW Symphony and Chamber Orchestras and a finalist in the Dorothy Jacoby Concerto Competition with Mendelssohn's E minor Violin Concerto.