Hello! I'm the bassoon professor at Oberlin Conservatory and the Round Top Music Festival. I love exploring creativity through Soundpainting and practice coaching.

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In my teaching I focus deeply on practice techniques in order to enable every student to find their own unique path in life. Whether that is an orchestral career, teaching, freelance, new music, or something outside of music all together! I help people become the best they can be.

I have previously taught at DePaul University, and played with orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Milwaukee Symphony, Grant Park Orchestra, New Orleans Philharmonic, Houston Grand Opera, and Chicago Civic Orchestra.
I studied Soundpainting with Walter Thompson, and have studied bassoon with George Sakakeeny at Oberlin, Bill Buchman at DePaul, Richard Beene at Colburn.Bassoons I have recorded on include Heckel #10058, Fox 601 #33375, Bell #30, Heckel #7000, Heckel #9498, Heckel 12112, and now Bell #234.In my personal life I enjoy disc golf, exercise and eating clean, crypto, and entrepreneurship.

I'm lucky to have worked with so many wonderful people.

Oberlin has one of the top bassoon studios in the country for winning auditions, competitions, and graduate school placements, but I'm just as proud of all of the people who became writers, doctors, accountants, improvisers, visual artists, arts managers, chemists, and conductors!

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Drew Pattison

Bassoonist and soundpainter

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