Patrick O'Brien (1947 – July 16, 2014) was an American guitarist and lutenist[1] born in New York. He was a recording artist, but was best known as a pedagogue in the field of early plucked instruments in America, and an expert in musicians' hand anatomy. He has worked with musicians on many instruments, reworking their technique around repetitive stress injuries and breakdowns of coordination.
Patrick O'Brien | |
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| Born | 1947 |
| Died | (aged 67) |
Biography
editPatrick O'Brien was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947.[2] He was an admirer and a student of many American folk and jazz musicians, in particular Reverend Gary Davis.
O'Brien taught early, classical, and other guitars, lute, archlute, theorbo and early harp in his native New York City for over fifty years. He was active as a continuo lutenist, guitarist, citternist and theorbist, and performed throughout Europe and North America with the Harp Consort, Baltimore Consort, Schola Antiqua, New York City Opera; and at the Caramoor, Spoleto and Boston Early Music festivals. He served on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music, the State and City Universities of New York and the annual Lute Society of America's Seminar. He was a plucked instrument instructor for the Baroque program at Juilliard.[3]
His students included, among others, Jozef van Wissem, Andrew Rutherford, Mara Galassi,[4] and Roman Turovsky[5] who in 2014 composed a tombeau on O'Brien's death.[6]
Discography
editPatrick O'Brien has made several recordings with the Harp Consort, The King's Noyse and Paul O'Dette.
References
edit- ^ Henahan, Donal (4 July 1978). "Lute: Patrick O'Brien Plays". New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
- ^ Simka, Joshua. "Patrick O'Brien 1947-2014". The Juilliard Journal. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
- ^ "Faculty Directory at The Juilliard School". Juilliard.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
- ^ "Mara Galassi Biography". polyhymnion.org. Archived from the original on 2015-05-21.
- ^ "Dialogues with Time". Voices - the Journal of New York Folklore. 37. Nyfolklore.org. Fall–Winter 2011. Archived from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
- ^ Turovsky-Savchuk, Roman (Winter 2014). "Tombeau sur la mort de mon maitre (tablature)". Lute Society of America Quarterly. 49 (4): 16–18.
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