Denver based cellist, Erin Patterson, enjoys a multi-faceted career teaching and performing across Colorado’s Front Range. She is a member of the Denver-based Sphere Ensemble and joins the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra in fall of 2024. She regularly performs with Opera Colorado, Colorado Ballet, and Central City Opera. Erin has appeared as a soloist with the Huntsville Symphony, the UBC Chamber Orchestra, and the CCM Conducting Orchestra. Her most recent solo performance was Anna Clyne's Cello Concerto, Dance, with the Boulder Symphony Orchestra. Erin is trained in the world-renowned Suzuki method and maintains a private studio of 15-20 young cellists in the Lafayette area. She is passionate about making music accessible to diverse communities and has performed in corrections facilities, retirement homes, cafes, yoga studios, and sensory friendly spaces country-wide. Previous teaching and performing engagements include the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, the Cincinnati Young Artists Chamber Music Festival, the Crested Butte Music Festival, the Lakes Area Music Festival, the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, and the Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Music Festival. Erin holds degrees in cello performance from the University of Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music and McGill University. Her most influential teachers include Alan Rafferty, Matt Hiamovitz and Avi Friedlander. She plays on a cello made in 2002 by Michael Stürzenhofecker and a bow by François Malo. When she's not working, Erin enjoys reading, baking, and spending time outside with her husband, Paul, and two rescue dogs, Lilo and Otis.