Kimberly Patterson

Classical cellist. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music with academic honors, Dr. Patterson earned her Master's of Music Degree at the Juilliard School and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her teachers include Richard Aaron, Andras Fejer, Judith Glyde and Stephen Geber. She is now the Assistant Professor of Cello at the University of Memphis. Dr. Patterson was the founding cellist for the Tesla Quartet. She also was a member of the Colorado Symphony, and cellist of the Ceruti Quartet. She is also the cellist of the Patterson/Sutton cello and guitar duo. (Guitarist is Patrick Sutton (2), to whom she has been married since June 2017.) With support of the United States’ State Department, Dr. Patterson taught and performed as a guest artist at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is also affiliated with Cultures in Harmony, which paired her with the indigenous Tagbanwa people of the Philippines for a week of music creation and cultural dialogue.