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Patrick
Brink has
been teaching trumpet and piano
at our school since 2007. He is
currently attending graduate
school at the University of
North Texas in Denton, and holds
degrees in film scoring, music
education, and music performance
from Berklee College of Music
and Texas Tech University. In
Boston, Patrick received the
World Scholarship Tour Award,
and was a trumpet soloist in
Berklee’s Concert Jazz Orchestra
under Greg Hopkins (trumpet,
Frank Sinatra) and the All-Stars
under Phil Wilson (trombone,
Louis Armstrong). He was an
honors student of film composers
Richard Davis (Warner Brothers),
Eric Reasoner (Hollywood
Pictures), and Michael Rendish
(HBO), and studied conducting
for film and television with
George Monseur (Leopold
Stokowsky, NBC), as well as
orchestral conducting with Louis
Stewart (New England
Conservatory) and Philip Lehrman
(Leonard Bernstein).
His trumpet instructors have
included Michael Steinel (UNT),
Tiger Okoshi (Berklee),
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Jeff Stout (Buddy Rich), Ken
Cervenka (Tony Bennett), Charles
Lewis (New York Philharmonic),
and Jim Austin (Houston
Symphony). Patrick was a jazz
piano student of William Westney
(Geneva Competition finalist),
and a composition student of
Steve Wiest (Maynard Ferguson)
and Mary Jeanne van Appledorn
(NY Ballet). He also studied
jazz arranging with Neil Slater
(North Texas One O’ Clock Lab
Band), Ben Elkins (Stan Kenton)
and the late James C. Sudduth
(Texas Tech Bands). Patrick has
appeared with Carolyn
Wonderland, Joe Sample (the
Crusaders), Billy Gibbons (ZZ
Top), Kirk Whalum, Doc
Severinson, Otis Day, James
Taylor, and the late jazz
drummer great Louis Bellson,
among others. He was inducted
into Pi Kappa Lamba national
music honor society in April,
and was awarded recognition in
May for his main title theme
“H-Town Groove,” which premiered
in Osaka, Japan at the
Independent Film Consortium. In
October 2009, he will be
inducted into the International
Film Composers Guild. |
