Patterson / Sutton Duo
Praised by BBC Music Magazine for their “beguiling” sound and by The Strad for their "wit and imagination", the Patterson/Sutton Duo bring the rich cello and guitar repertoire to audiences around the world. The Patterson/Sutton duo have been featured artists at the Guitar Foundation of America Convention and have an ongoing relationship with The Juilliard School as Juilliard Global Visiting Artists.
The Patterson/Sutton Duo’s two studio albums, “Cold Dark Matter” and “Still Life: Collected Music for Cello and Guitar by Stephen Goss” were both released to critical acclaim and widespread international radio play. Composer and guitarist, Dušan Bogdanović declared: “Everything [on Cold Dark Matter] is performed with excellence and sensitivity.” The Duo strives to push the boundaries of the repertoire by commissioning new music for cello and guitar from top composers. Their most recent commission, “Still Life” by composer Steven Goss, was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, the most prestigious prize for modern music in the United Kingdom.
Recent concert appearances include the New York City Classical Guitar Society, Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival, Florida Guitar Foundation, Portland International Guitar Series, Minnesota Guitar Society’s International Guitar Artist Series, University of Colorado International Guitar Festival, Knoxville Guitar Society, Saigon Guitar Series in Vietnam, Shanghai Conservatory in China, Princeton Symphony Chamber Music Series, Denver Friends of Chamber Music, and the Strings Music Festival, among others. Their research in the field of cello and guitar performance has culminated in lecture-recitals at the Dublin Guitar Symposium, International Guitar Research Center Conference in the UK, and the Guitar Foundation of America Convention. Soundboard magazine called their GFA engagement “a deeply inspiring performance”.
The Patterson/Sutton Duo are strong believers in the transformative power of educational outreach. Funded by the US State Department, the duo held a guest-artist residency at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul in 2014, where they worked with the budding generation of Afghan musicians and gave a performance at the Canadian Embassy of Afghanistan. More recently, The Juilliard School has sent the duo to Bratislava, Budapest, Dublin, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and New York City as guest-artists to perform and teach at international schools as part of the Juilliard/Nord Anglia global intuitive.
Dr. Kimberly Patterson holds degrees from the Juilliard School, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is currently Associate Professor of Cello at the University of Memphis. Dr. Patrick Sutton holds degrees from the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is on the guitar faculty at the University of Memphis and Arkansas State University. The duo became husband and wife in June of 2017.
Cello - Kimberly Patterson
Guitar - Patrick Sutton
Past Highlights
3.20.2016 International Guitar Research Center. University of Surrey, Guildford, England
6.21.2016 Guitar Foundation of America Convention. Featured Artist Recital
2.11.2017 CU Guitar Festival at University of Colorado. Boulder, CO
2.14.2017 St. John's Cathedral. Denver, CO
3.20.2017 University of Southern Mississippi. Hattiesburg, Mississippi
4.9.2017 Clyfford Still Museum. Friends of Chamber Music Series. Denver, CO
8.10.2017 National Flute Association Convention. Minneapolis, MN
9.2.2017 Knoxville Guitar Society. Knoxville, TN
11.5.2017 Trinity By The Cove Concert Series. Naples, Florida
11.12.2017 Memphis Chamber Music Society. Memphis, TN
11.20-21.2017 Juilliard Global Visiting Artists - Hanoi, Vietnam
11.22-23.2017 Juilliard Global Visiting Artists - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
11/28-12/1.2017 Shanghai Conservatory Preparatory School. Guest Artist Residency. Shanghai, China
3.7.2018 Tulane University. New Orleans, LA
4.13.2018 Juilliard Global Visiting Artists - NAISNY. New York, NY
4.14.2018 Princeton Symphony Gala. Princeton, NJ
4.15.2018 Stonebridge at Montgomery. Princeton, NJ
4.15.2018 Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton, NJ
4.16.2018 Monroe Township Public Library. Princeton, NJ
4.16.2018 Stonebridge at Montgomery. Princeton, NJ
4.15.2018 Princeton Windrows. Princeton, NJ
5.16-19.2018 Naxos Recording sessions w/ flutist Cobus du Toit. New Haven, CT
6.2.2018 Cheyenne Guitar Society. Cheyenne, Wyoming
10.24.2018 Tulane University. New Orleans, LA
10.25.2018 Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
11.30.2018 Portland International Guitar Series. Portland, Oregon
2.13.2019 Juilliard Global Visiting Artists - Dublin, Ireland
2.22-23.2019 Dublin Guitar Symposium. DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. Dublin, Ireland.
3.21.2019 Clyfford Still Museum. World Premiere of "Still Life" by Stephen Goss.
4.27.2019 Florida Guitar Foundation. Miami, Florida
6.14.2019 Juilliard Global Visiting Artists - Budapest, Hungary
6.17.2019 Juilliard Global Visiting Artists - Bratislava, Slovakia
6.21-30.2019 Memphis in Poland Festival. Gdansk, Warsaw and Bielsko-Biala, Poland.
9/11/2019 University of Nebraska. Omaha, Nebraska
11.25.2019 Princeton Symphony Chamber Music Series. Princeton, New Jersey
12.8.2019 Stanley Hotel Concert Series. Estes Park, Colorado
2.5.2020 Tulane University. New Orleans, Luisiana
2.6.2020 University of Southern Mississippi
3.6-7.2020 Western Slopes Concert Series. Grand Junction, Colorado
10.17.2020 Minnesota Guitar Society International Guitar Artist Series. St. Paul, Minnesota
10.10.2021 Clyfford Still Museum
3.20.2022 Memphis Chamber Music Society
5.27.2022 New York City Classical Guitar Society
6.1-4.2023 Cleveland International Guitar Festival. Cleveland, Ohio
Cold Dark Matter
"Wit and imagination." - The Strad (October 2013)
"Everything is performed with excellence and sensitivity. I especially like the beautiful tone and the sense of lyricism, though the virtuosity of both is apparent." - Dusan Bogdanovic
"What a great record, I love the Bogdanovic pieces. Really beautiful playing throughout the CD, expressive, poignant in places and ballsy when it needs to be." - Stephen Goss
They are brilliant... Great music and a very living interpretation. - Jaime Zenamon
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Kimberly Patterson & Patrick Sutton
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Patterson/Sutton Duo
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Kimberly Patterson & Patrick Sutton
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Kimberly Patterson & Patrick Sutton
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Kimberly Patterson & Patrick Sutton
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Kimberly Patterson & Patrick Sutton
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Kimberly Patterson & Patrick Sutton