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Patrick Burns

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Patrick J. Burns

Biography

Patrick J. Burns (b. 1969, Newark, New Jersey) is a composer, conductor, music educator and publisher from Bloomfield, New Jersey. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Music at Montclair State University in New Jersey since 1994, where he teaches courses in music theory, orchestration, and composition, and has also taught instrumental music in the Caldwell-West Caldwell Public Schools since 1998. He is the founding and current director of the Bloomfield Youth Band (1986), and former director of the Imperial Brass and the Montclair State University Youth Orchestra. Mr. Burns is active as a guest conductor and clinician with public school, community, university, region and all-state bands and has recorded albums and concertized with world-renowned brass artists Philip Smith, Warren Vaché, Roger Webster and Chris Jaudes. In September 2011, he was appointed Director of the New Jersey City University Symphony of Winds and Percussion.

Burns' music for symphonic band is published by G. Schirmer, Daehn Publications, Bandworks Publications, FJH Music, Wingert-Jones Music and TRN Music Publisher. His music has appeared on Bandworld magazine’s Top 100 list of band compositions five times. The Instrumentalist and School Music News have also printed favorable reviews of Mr. Burns’ band music and The Classical New Jersey Society Journal has praised his chamber music. His music has been performed numerous times at The Midwest Clinic in Chicago and has been recorded for the educational series Distinguished Music for the Developing Band. His music has been performed on multiple occasions by the United States Army Band, "Pershing's Own", as well as military and conservatory bands in Russia, China, Sweden and Japan. He has received commissions from many organizations including the Goldman Band/Harvey Phillips Foundation, Ohio Northern University, the Bel Air (Maryland) Community Band, the SoundTree Corporation and Westlake Village High School Wind Ensemble (California) for the band’s performance at Carnegie Hall. From 2003-2010, Mr. Burns served as president of the Bloomfield Federation of Music. In March 2010, he founded his own publishing company, Bandworks Publications.


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