Born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1955, Patrick excelled early in mathematics and science. A product of a musical family, he also took early interest in all kinds of music. As a grade schooler, when he wasn't wiring up circuit boards or building working-model submarines, he was singing along to new Beatles releases pretending to strum a tennis racket. (A real guitar followed, although his first lessons were for the trombone.)

Patrick logged in many years playing electric guitar in garage bands until he left for college and met John Houshmand and Jonathan Levi, with whom he founded the groundbreaking acoustic group that became known as Laurasia. Combining folk, classical, jazz, bluegrass, rock and Near Eastern sounds, their innovative concerts and recordings (East River Consort & Undiscovered Country) made a mark on the New Acoustic Music movement of the 70's and helped usher in New Age and World Music in the '80s.

In 1996 Patrick released Beat Noir, his first solo recording, after seven years in the making and at the urging of his brother Peter, who had recently released several recordings of solo piano on his new Wild Orchard label. In April, 2000, Patrick and Peter released their first-ever collaboration, Scott's Red Star, a beautiful and delightful fusion of their diverse instrumental influences.

Patrick's parallel education and professional tracks have been equally impressive and eclectic. His undergraduate degree is in applied mathematics from Yale, where he later returned for an MBA after years playing music full-time with Laurasia and working as a director for environmental group Greenpeace. His business experience includes 4 years with the prestigious McKinsey & Company management consulting firm, plus 10 years with a consulting firm he co-founded. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in Decision Sciences, a training he has put to use as a faculty member at the Harvard Business School and at Emory's Goizueta Business School (where he is currently a professor, award-winning statistics teacher, and expert on information technologies).

Always putting together new projects, and always striving to combine his love of music and technology, Patrick's latest dream has been the founding of the Museum of Music, Inc., whose mission will be to establish a "high tech celebration of music & the human experience" in his adopted home of Atlanta.

LATEST: Patrick and his brother Peter have just released Scott's Red Star, a product of two years of collaboration. Get the full story and a sample of this new recording!

• The Music Man - An Emory Profile
  by Eric Rangus
  excertped from: The Emory Report, June 26, 2000
  
  
• Family Reunion
  by Matthew Dietrich
  link to: Illinois State Journal-Register, June 15, 2000
  
  
• Intersection of Art and Academics Leads to New CD
  by Jan Gleason
  excerpted from: The Emory Report, Dec. 2, 1996