Bio
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Dr. Patti Cudd is active as a percussion soloist, chamber musician and educator. Patti is a member of the acclaimed new music ensemble, Zeitgeist. Her other diverse performing opportunities have included CRASH, the Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble, Minnesota Dance Theatre and the Borrowed Bones Dance Theater.
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As an active performer of the music of the 21st century, she has given concerts and master classes throughout North America, Asia, Europe and South America. She has participated in such festivals as the Bang on a Can Festival at Lincoln Center, ICMC (Greece, UK, China, Netherlands, US), Frau Musica Nova (Cologne, Germany), Mexico City’s Ciclo de Percusiones Series, Interactive Arts Performance Seriesin NYC, NYCEMF, PASIC, SARC (Belfast, Ireland), GRIM (Marseille, France),The North American New Music Festival (Buffalo, NY), June in Buffalo, Society of Composers, Inc National Conference (Miami, Fl), Noise in the Library Festival (San Diego, CA), SEAMUS, The Mirror of the New (Hawaii), Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series, Beyond the Pink Festival (LA), New Progressions Series (Baltimore, MD),Sonic Diasporas, New Music Festival (San Diego,CA), Spark Festival of Electronic Music (Minneapolis), Form and the Feminine Voice Festival (LA), Copenhagen Composers’ Biennale (Denmark), Nove Hudby Plus Festival in Brno, Czech Republic, Samcheok Music Festival, (Samcheok, Korea), Sokcho Arts Festival (Sokcho, Korea), New Music for Technology (Hanyang University (Seoul, Korea) and the Festival Cultural Zacatecas.
Patti has worked closely with some of the most innovative composers of our time including Brian Ferneyhough, Morton Feldman, Roger Reynolds, Martin Bresnick, Pauline Oliveros, Jay Aaron Kernis, John Luther Adams, John Zorn, Michael Colgrass, Cort Lippe, Harvey Sollberger, Julia Wolfe, Christian Wolff, Vinko Globokar and Frederic Rzewski.
As a percussion soloist and chamber musician, she has premiered well over 200 new works, and has recorded under the labels Hat Hut, Bridge, New World, CRI, Innova, Emf Media, Sideband and Mode. She recently released on Innova Recordings, a triple solo CD of solo percussion and electronic pieces. Patti is a Yamaha Performing Artist, an endorser of Sabian Cymbals and a member of the Vic Firth and Black Swamp Education Teams.
Patti holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree specializing in Contemporary Musical Studies from the University of California, San Diego, Master of Music Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and studied in the soloist class with a Fulbright Scholarship at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her teachers have included Steven Schick, Jan Williams, Joe Holmquist, Gert Mortensen and Bent Lylloff.
Patti teaches at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and the College of Saint Benedict/ Saint Johns University.
Patti has worked closely with some of the most innovative composers of our time including Brian Ferneyhough, Morton Feldman, Roger Reynolds, Martin Bresnick, Pauline Oliveros, Jay Aaron Kernis, John Luther Adams, John Zorn, Michael Colgrass, Cort Lippe, Harvey Sollberger, Julia Wolfe, Christian Wolff, Vinko Globokar and Frederic Rzewski.
As a percussion soloist and chamber musician, she has premiered well over 200 new works, and has recorded under the labels Hat Hut, Bridge, New World, CRI, Innova, Emf Media, Sideband and Mode. She recently released on Innova Recordings, a triple solo CD of solo percussion and electronic pieces. Patti is a Yamaha Performing Artist, an endorser of Sabian Cymbals and a member of the Vic Firth and Black Swamp Education Teams.
Patti holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree specializing in Contemporary Musical Studies from the University of California, San Diego, Master of Music Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and studied in the soloist class with a Fulbright Scholarship at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her teachers have included Steven Schick, Jan Williams, Joe Holmquist, Gert Mortensen and Bent Lylloff.
Patti teaches at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and the College of Saint Benedict/ Saint Johns University.
