Cellist Rebecca Patterson is dedicated to the performance of orchestral music, chamber music, contemporary music, and teaching. Serving as Principal Cellist for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra since 2012, her appointment has enabled her to also be actively involved with numerous educational programs, ranging from working with young composers, to being a mentor in the Harmony Fellowship Program, to showcasing high school string quartets in a pre-NHSO concert community service performance, to performing in family concerts and area libraries for kids, to her favorite – the NHSO Fellowship Quartet / Recording Composition Class at Wilbur Cross High School. She is a dedicated private teacher and chamber coach of all ages, and serves on the faculty of the Neighborhood Music School and the Southern Connecticut State University, and previously at the Elm City ChamberFest, the Westport School of Music, and the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

She is a co-founder of the award-winning chamber ensemble Antares, which has won top prizes in the Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff, Coleman, Yellow Springs, and Carmel Chamber Music Competitions. Ms. Patterson received her Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music and her Master of Music from the Yale School of Music.  While at Eastman she was the winner of the Gibbs Chamber Orchestra Concerto competition, as well as the recipient of the full-merit Lois Smith Rogers Scholarship.  At Yale she was a recipient of the Ender Scholarship, which goes to a cellist with excellent promise.

email: becky.patterson@gmail.com