Patrick Grimone is an oboist and music educator based in Hartford, CT. He teaches oboe and piano at the Community Music School of Springfield. He serves as Second Oboe and English Horn with the New England Repertory Orchestra, substitute oboe with the Hartford Symphony, and is an active freelance musician throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts. He has performed with the OperaMaya Festival and American Wind Symphony Orchestra. Patrick also teaches undergraduate music level courses at New Hampshire Technical Institute.
Patrick received his Master’s of Music in Oboe Performance at the University of Maryland, where he studied with Mark Hill and was a member of the prestigious fellowship Woodwind Quintet. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Oboe Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where his teachers were Mark Ostoich, Dwight Parry, and Christopher Philpotts.