Patrick Castillo
Composer
Patrick Castillo music has been described as “restrained and reflective but brimming with a variety of texture and sound that draws you into its world” and has been featured at Chamber Music Northwest, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Schubert Club, Birdfoot Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, 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 highlights include commissions 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, and Manhattan Choral Ensemble. Castillo is founding composer and of "forward-looking, expert ensemble" (The New Yorker) “Third Sound” and Executive Director of contemporary music collective Hotel Elefant. He previously served as Director of Artistic Planning of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and recently was appointed Vice President of Artistic Planning for the New York Philharmonic.
