About
Patrick Gutman is a classically trained composer and pianist who writes Film, Concert, and Ambient/Meditative music. His music has been performed both in the states and in Europe, including Italy, France, and Switzerland. With musical interests that include classical, film, rock, ambient, dance and electronic music, Patrick often blends these sound worlds together to create genre-expanding music. With an extensive knowledge of music theory (PhD in Music Composition) combined with his personal intuition, Patrick is able to bring a keen awareness and sensitivity to his compositions that allow him to create specific and intentional pieces of music that are as diverse as his musical background and interests.
As a young child Patrick began piano lessons at age 8 and started writing electronic beats on the computer as a pre-teen. As Patrick continued playing piano through middle and high school, opportunities to perform opened up when he was asked to play keyboard in a rock band. The band was part of the Kids Rock Free music program at the Fender Center in Corona, California, and they performed covers from classic rock bands including Rush, Deep Purple, Boston, Genesis and more. Throughout those years his band had the opportunity to open up for artists such as The Gin Blossoms, John Waite, Dick Dale and Gary Hoey. The group also met and performed the pre-show for Steve Miller and even had the experience of playing on stage with rock legend Joe Walsh for a fund raising event for the Kids Rock Free Program at the Fender Center (of which $500,000 was raised that evening). His love for rock music inspired the topic for his PhD dissertation where he analyzed the musical structures and compositional components of The Beatle’s album Abbey Road.
Patrick has scored dozens of short films (both animated and live action) in addition to writing music for commercials. In Fall 2015 he released his first album consisting of piano and electronic-based music for meditation. In 2016, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles commissioned Patrick to compose a song for Bloomsday, an international day that celebrates the life and writings of author James Joyce. The following spring, Patrick was the recipient of the Hugo Davise Fund for Contemporary Music at UCLA and received a premier of his piece Play-Etude from the NOW Ensemble, a contemporary new music group based in New York. As a pianist Patrick has performed throughout Southern California as an accompanist, solo artist, and recording session player, and has won several piano competitions as well, including the MTAC (Music Teachers Association of California) Southern California Adult Piano Performance competition.
As a way to bring balance to his intense studies as a double major in both Piano Performance and Music Composition at the Conservatory of Music at Chapman University, in January 2011 Patrick participated in a transformative 10-day meditation retreat in the Colorado Mountains at the Shambhala Mountain Center. His love for meditation combined with his passion for helping others inspired him to write more ambient and meditative music. In 2015 he composed his first meditation album Grief: From Pain to Possibility that was a companion to the same self-titled book that helps people transform their grief into freedom, love, and joy. His second meditative album consists of a set of guided meditations which will be released in Summer 2022. As Patrick continued to explore sound as a way to release tension in the mind and body to feel better, he partnered with a friend in 2018 to create Sound Bath Meditations using Crystal Singing Bowls and other instruments. Their duo is called Sound Bath Alchemy and they offer both in person and virtual Sound Baths.
For over a decade Patrick has taught a wide variety of musical courses including musicianship and theory, 20th century pop music, Film Music, and private and group piano lessons. Patrick received his Bachelor’s of Music degrees in both Piano Performance and Composition from Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music. He then moved to Los Angeles where he received his Masters in Composition at California State University, Northridge and his Doctorate in Composition from University of California, Los Angeles. Patrick is a fellow of the Cortona Sessions for New Music; the Chamber Music Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau, France; the Talis Festival and Academy in Saas-Fee, Switzerland; and the Screen Music Program in Pavia, Italy.
As a young child Patrick began piano lessons at age 8 and started writing electronic beats on the computer as a pre-teen. As Patrick continued playing piano through middle and high school, opportunities to perform opened up when he was asked to play keyboard in a rock band. The band was part of the Kids Rock Free music program at the Fender Center in Corona, California, and they performed covers from classic rock bands including Rush, Deep Purple, Boston, Genesis and more. Throughout those years his band had the opportunity to open up for artists such as The Gin Blossoms, John Waite, Dick Dale and Gary Hoey. The group also met and performed the pre-show for Steve Miller and even had the experience of playing on stage with rock legend Joe Walsh for a fund raising event for the Kids Rock Free Program at the Fender Center (of which $500,000 was raised that evening). His love for rock music inspired the topic for his PhD dissertation where he analyzed the musical structures and compositional components of The Beatle’s album Abbey Road.
Patrick has scored dozens of short films (both animated and live action) in addition to writing music for commercials. In Fall 2015 he released his first album consisting of piano and electronic-based music for meditation. In 2016, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles commissioned Patrick to compose a song for Bloomsday, an international day that celebrates the life and writings of author James Joyce. The following spring, Patrick was the recipient of the Hugo Davise Fund for Contemporary Music at UCLA and received a premier of his piece Play-Etude from the NOW Ensemble, a contemporary new music group based in New York. As a pianist Patrick has performed throughout Southern California as an accompanist, solo artist, and recording session player, and has won several piano competitions as well, including the MTAC (Music Teachers Association of California) Southern California Adult Piano Performance competition.
As a way to bring balance to his intense studies as a double major in both Piano Performance and Music Composition at the Conservatory of Music at Chapman University, in January 2011 Patrick participated in a transformative 10-day meditation retreat in the Colorado Mountains at the Shambhala Mountain Center. His love for meditation combined with his passion for helping others inspired him to write more ambient and meditative music. In 2015 he composed his first meditation album Grief: From Pain to Possibility that was a companion to the same self-titled book that helps people transform their grief into freedom, love, and joy. His second meditative album consists of a set of guided meditations which will be released in Summer 2022. As Patrick continued to explore sound as a way to release tension in the mind and body to feel better, he partnered with a friend in 2018 to create Sound Bath Meditations using Crystal Singing Bowls and other instruments. Their duo is called Sound Bath Alchemy and they offer both in person and virtual Sound Baths.
For over a decade Patrick has taught a wide variety of musical courses including musicianship and theory, 20th century pop music, Film Music, and private and group piano lessons. Patrick received his Bachelor’s of Music degrees in both Piano Performance and Composition from Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music. He then moved to Los Angeles where he received his Masters in Composition at California State University, Northridge and his Doctorate in Composition from University of California, Los Angeles. Patrick is a fellow of the Cortona Sessions for New Music; the Chamber Music Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau, France; the Talis Festival and Academy in Saas-Fee, Switzerland; and the Screen Music Program in Pavia, Italy.