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John Patitucci, Artist in Residence

Bass
  • Three-time Grammy Award winner
  • Fourteen Grammy nominations
  • Played on many Grammy Award-winning recordings
  • Thirteen solo recordings
  • Latest CD, Remembrance, features saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer Brian Blade
  • Performed and/or recorded with jazz giants such as Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Kenny Garrett, Victor Feldman, Nancy Wilson, and countless others
  • Latest instructional book, Melodic Arpeggios and Triad Combining, published by David Gage
  • Formerly the artistic director of the Bass Collective, a specialized school in New York
  • Professor of Music at the City College of New York, 2002-2012
  • Performed bass concerto A Prayer Out of Stillness by British composer Mark Anthony Turnage with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (featured on a live broadcast by the BBC), the Trondheim Symphony of Norway, the St. Louis Symphony, and the London Symphony Orchestra
  • Launched interactive online bass school through ArtistWorks.com in 2013

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