Longwood Debut
A recent graduate of the Juilliard School where he was a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship, Aaron Patterson is Director of Music at Cresheim Valley Church in Philadelphia and was the first place winner at the 2017 Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition and the 2016 West Chester University International Organ Competition.
Patterson earned his master’s degree in organ performance under the tutelage of Paul Jacobs and his bachelor’s degree as the Charles and Judith Freyer Annual Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied organ performance with Alan Morrison. He also received a certificate in harpsichord performance with Leon Schelhase. Prior to this, Patterson studied organ with Dennis Elwell and piano with Dolly Krasnopolsky. Patterson has been a recipient of the Pogorzelski-Yankee Memorial Scholarship from the American Guild of Organists and the Bart Pitman Memorial Music Scholarship from the Delaware Valley Music Club.
Patterson loves collaboration and has performed with orchestras, violinists, flautists, choirs, and other keyboardists. His performance venues have included the Wanamaker Grand Court, Boardwalk Hall, and the Kimmel Center. Patterson formerly served as assistant organist at Tenth Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia) and organ scholar at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, PA.
