Patrick Rehker
Patrick currently free-lances in the Chicagoland area, teaching and performing. He is a full-time member of the Rockford Symphony and has performed with Chicago Sinfonietta, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Elgin, Illinois, Elmhurst, Kalamazoo, South Bend, Quad City Symphonies as well as the Las Vegas and Illinois Philharmonics. Other groups he has worked with include OperaModa and Chicago Opera Vanguard. Patrick has also performed with the Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman, Paramount, Drury Lane, Timeline, Porchlight, Marriott, Writer's, Royal George and Court Theatre Companies, as well as the American Girl Revue.
Notable performances include soloing at Carnegie Hall, performing at the Chicago Cultural Center's Sunday Salon Series, and playing on 98.7 WFMT. He has also competed and won First Place in the Beethoven Competition of Memphis, 2nd Place at the Middle Tennessee State University Concerto Competition, and Finalist for the International Clarinet Association Orchestral Excerpt Competition. For the past 4 years, Patrick has been an Artist Clinician for D’Addario Woodwinds.
As a teacher, Patrick holds studios at Concordia University, Moraine Valley Community College, and The Chicago High School for the Arts. Student accomplishments include placing in Regional and All-State ensembles, Concerto Competition Winners, and admittance to music programs at Eastman, Northwestern, Indiana University, DePaul, DePauw, Lawrence University, Illinois State University, and Northern Illinois University. Patrick did his pre-college work at Vanderbilt University with the Myra Jackson Blair Scholarship, Bachelors of Music at Middle Tennessee University (Magnum Cum Lade) received his Masters of Music from Northwestern University.
