KojoAstronaut

Baltimore, MD, USA

Scott Patterson is a pianist and composer of incomparable talent. His blend of classical, soul and rock music is futuristic, emotive and luxuriant. He is a recipient of the 2020 Regional Independent Artist Award for Performing Arts from the Maryland State Arts Council and in 2019 he received the Mary Sawyers Imboden Baker Artist Award. Patterson is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Afro House, a music-driven performance art house based in Baltimore, MD. In 2012 he began composing for and touring with Camille A. Brown & Dancers. He is contributing composer of the Bessie Award winning Mr. TOL E. RAncE and Brown’s critically acclaimed work, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play and ink. Currently, Patterson is developing Cloud Nebula, an epic Afrofuturistic sci-fi opera-ballet film, as a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellow. More information about Patterson and Afro House can be found on Instagram @afrohousebaltimore and www.afrohouse.org.