Patrick Sutton, guitar
Patrick Sutton
Sutton is an award-winning guitarist and chamber musician from Evergreen, Colorado. He has given numerous world and US premieres of works by important guitar composers, such as Stephen Goss, Gilbert Bibarian, Ricardo Iznaola and Richard Boukas. He is regularly invited to perform and teach at universities and venues throughout the country and abroad, including recent engagements at the University of Texas, Odessa College, and East Tennessee State. In the summer of 2014, Patrick embarked on a critically acclaimed month-long concert tour of South Africa, which included recitals at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg and at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. He was also invited to give master classes at the University of South Africa and the University of Cape Town. He recently returned from a project in Egypt with the cultural diplomacy NGO Cultures in Harmony where he collaborated with the Egyptian jazz group Nour Project in writing music for outreach programs and performed concerts in Cairo and Alexandria.
Patrick is currently on the music faculty at Community College of Denver and Naropa University. After studying with Ricardo Iznaola at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, Patrick earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado under the tutelage of Jonathan Leathwood.
Sutton is an award-winning guitarist and chamber musician from Evergreen, Colorado. He has given numerous world and US premieres of works by important guitar composers, such as Stephen Goss, Gilbert Bibarian, Ricardo Iznaola and Richard Boukas. He is regularly invited to perform and teach at universities and venues throughout the country and abroad, including recent engagements at the University of Texas, Odessa College, and East Tennessee State. In the summer of 2014, Patrick embarked on a critically acclaimed month-long concert tour of South Africa, which included recitals at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg and at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. He was also invited to give master classes at the University of South Africa and the University of Cape Town. He recently returned from a project in Egypt with the cultural diplomacy NGO Cultures in Harmony where he collaborated with the Egyptian jazz group Nour Project in writing music for outreach programs and performed concerts in Cairo and Alexandria.
Patrick is currently on the music faculty at Community College of Denver and Naropa University. After studying with Ricardo Iznaola at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, Patrick earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado under the tutelage of Jonathan Leathwood.
