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Dennis Patrick

Associate Professor Emeritus, Teaching Stream

Composition
Music Technology

Education

  • MMus, University of Toronto

Biography

Dennis Patrick is an Associate Professor Emeritus, and Director Emeritus of the Electroacoustic Music and Recording Studios at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. He was trained in classical composition and orchestration. His teachers included John Weinzweig, Gustav Ciamaga, Godfrey Ridout, Lothar Klein, and Talivaldis Kenins. His interests include musical acoustics, music technology, and computer applications in music. He has composed music for award winning CBC radio dramas by Canadian authors, Timothy Findley and Michael Ondaatje, and for The Final Hour, a live radio drama commemorating the 60th anniversary of D-day.