Described as “intensely focused” by The New York Times, violinist Patti Kilroy is a modern-minded musician with eclectic tastes based in New York City. Patti has performed with contemporary music ensembles like Alarm Will Sound, Argento New Music Project, ensemble mise-en, ETHEL, Newspeak, Signal, The Wordless Music Orchestra, the avant-rock Burning City Orchestra led by Noam Faingold, and the disco band Escort. She has also had the opportunity to play in the company of a variety of artists spanning many genres, including Icelandic singer Björk, avant-jazz-funk band Medeski, Martin and Wood, Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead, the band Goldfrapp, Icelandic electronic artist Valgeir Sigurdsson, John Cale from the Velvet Underground, rock band Deep Purple, and Afro-Peruvian singer Eva Ayllón. Patti has performed in a variety of concert halls, bars, and living rooms, including Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Center, Muziekgebouw a’ant Ij in Amsterdam, the Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Merkin Hall, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Galapagos, Symphony Space, and Death by Audio, among other places. She was a Bang on a Can Summer Festival fellow in the summers of 2010 and 2011, and a New Horizons Fellowship Recipient at the Aspen Music Festival in 2013. Patti currently plays in a string quartet named seven)suns, a quartet combining metal and Western art music, and in an amplified ensemble named eQuintet.

In addition to performing, Patti teaches violin and chamber music at Western Connecticut State University and New York University. She was a visiting faculty member at Hunter College’s Department of Music this past year. She is also a candidate for the Ph.D. in Violin Performance at NYU Steinhardt, studying violin with Naoko Tanaka. Her dissertation research explores how oral and written knowledge exist and interact in contemporary music performance practice, particularly in electroacoustic music for string quartet. She is also interested in contemporary chamber music from the 20th and 21st century, postmodern philosophy, music aesthetics, string quartet transcriptions, practice-based research, and music conservatory histories.