Michael Patterson & Brenda Fols

Date: Friday, February 14, 2025

Time: 5pm - 7pm

Michael Patterson is a Grammy (2010) and Emmy Award winning composer. Michael’s creative output is vast including commissions and concert work for the London Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Novus and the Eastman Trombone Choir, Ernest Bloch Chamber Ensemble, NYRO (New York Repertory Orchestra) and the Debussy Trio, Parallel Forms for the award winning trombone quartet Novus and Psalm for String Orchestra and Saxophone, premiered by Eddie Daniels and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. And his Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, composed for artist Rick VanMatre, which received several American performances in 2010/11 and was premiered in China, June 2012. Mike’s arrangements and original compositions have been performed by jazz legends Hank Jones, Woody Shaw, Bob Shepherd, Roland Hanna, Eddie Daniels, Marc Copland and Phil Woods. Also, his characteristically luscious film and television scores have been heard on The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, over fifty episodes of J.A.G. (CBS-TV), Tiny Toon Adventures with Steven Spielberg, and the Lucasfilms’ feature, Radioland Murders. His association with and mentorship by Leonard Rosenman can be heard in his remarkable orchestration of the feature film Jurij.

Singing has been Brenda Folz‘ passion for decades. A Cincinnati native, she broke into the music scene in her early twenties and sang with some of the most talented musicians in the area, singing classic pop, jazz standards, and Latin favorites. Brenda’s performance of Joni Mitchell “Blue” album has been a highlight in recent years.

Brenda has three albums to her credit and can be heard Singing in well known venues throughout the Cincinnati area.