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Patrick Kelly is an experienced, professional composer/arranger who is available for creative musical projects in film, for the stage or other special media and for private commissions. Music can be composed for orchestra, wind ensemble, big band, electronic instruments, choral group or any combination of instruments to create the desired mood or effect. Music can be delivered in the form of a score and individual parts or be recorded and synchronized to film or tape for corporate or entertainment industry clients.

"Kelly is a resourceful and clever arranger...The PsychoAcoustic Orchestra stretches, but doesn't break, the boundaries of contemporary big band tradition."
Mark Holston - Jazziz

• Fast, accurate transcription
• Custom arrangements made to order
• For piano, small group, big band, strings, concert band
• Any style
• Scores and parts clearly and correctly notated

Patrick Kelly - Catalogue of Compositions
and Arrangements:

(Appearing on the following recordings:)

A) SUPREME THING -The PsychoAcoustic Orchestra (1994)
B) REACTIVATION -The PsychoAcoustic Orchestra (1995)
C) J CURVE CINCINNATI JAZZ COLLECTION, VOL. I (1998)
D) J CURVE CINCINNATI JAZZ COLLECTION, VOL. II (1999)
E) J CURVE CINCINNATI JAZZ COLLECTION, VOL. III (2000)
F) ¿DONDE ESTAS? - Latin X-posure (2000)
G) TRIPLE STOP - Scotty Anderson (2001)
H) HIDDEN TREASURES - (2002)
I) KILLER LOVE - P. Ann Everson-Price (2004)

-- Original Compositions For Pat's Thirteen Piece Jazz Orchestra:

Number 6 (1976) A
Zen I’m Calling You (ca.1979) A
Elegy For Alex (ca. 1979) A
Weird Asparagus (ca. 1979) A
For Mingus and Dolphy (1979) B
The Debris Of The Planets (ca. 1979, revised 1994) B
Armageddon Semimental Overview (ca. 1980) A
You Haven’t Did (ca. 1980) A
Baritone Island (1980, revised 1995) B
Luthor’s Space (ca. 1980) B
Luminance (1983) A
Supreme Thing (1984) A
I’ve Forgotten You (1984)
Reactivation (1986) B
Sad In A Happy Way (1995)
Shades (1995)
Good Son/Bad Son (1996)
Eniarrol (1996)
Chant for Ohnedaruth (1996)
La Ofrenda (1997)
Structural Functions (1979, Rev. 2004)
The War Of The 96 Tears (2004)
The Blues that Never Ends (2008)
Alleluia (2008)
Fusion Happy Birthday (2010)
Rutabaga Archipelago (2010)
Fun With Notes (2010)
Salsanati Blue (2010)
Nebulous (2012)

--Arrangements For Pat's Thirteen Piece Jazz Orchestra:

The Dance Of Maya (1992) A (McLaughlin)
Bad King Wenceslas (1994) A
Sunshine Of Your Love (1994) B (Cream)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (1994)
Ronda (1995) (Longas)
This Here (1995) (Timmons)
Cousin Mary (1995/96) C (Coltrane)
Duke Ellington’s Sound Of Love (1996) (Mingus)
Cold Sweat (2002) H (James Brown)
Holiday In Berlin (Zappa)
Christmastime Is Here (1997) (Guaraldi)
Willow Weep For Me (2004)
Just In Time (2008)
Shorty Rides Again (2011)(Eddie Harris)

--Compositions and Arrangements for Twelve Piece Latin Band

Smokin' In Havana (1997) F
I Thought I Heard You Call My Name (1999) F
Yo Quiero Mas (1999) F
Esta Noche Donde Estas? (1999) F
Countdown (1999) D (John Coltrane)
La Ofrenda (1999) F
Salsanati Blue E

--Compositions and Arrangements For Assorted Small Ensembles:

A Aalba Blackboard (1969)
Structural Functions (ca.1979)
Eniarrol (1993)
Nocturne (La Luz) (1983) F
Contemplating Intergalactic Migration (ca. 1987)
Almacita (1986)
Cyrus At Two (1990)
Everybody’s Business (1984)
Lost and Lost (1974)
Fish (1974)
Rutabaga Archipelago (1984) B
Since I Fell For You (2000) E
I've Forgotten You (2004) I
Twenty Small Cigars (comp. by Frank Zappa) (2005)
Blowin' At Dee's (2006)
Rilla (2006)
Tunescape (2006)
Rise (lyrics and rap concept by Kimberly Gerhold) (2006)
Waltz for Janice (2011)
Consumer Christmas (2011)
Phil (2012)

--Other original works:

String Quartet (1983)
Four Short Piano Pieces (1983)
Variations On A Theme Of Eric Dolphy, "Miss Ann Variations" (For Strings, Woodwind, Percussion and Alto Saxophone) (1982)
Spreading Divine Joy (Choral)- words by Paramahansa Yogananda (2006)

--Student Pieces:

Col Kodafy’s Mother-For Three Percussionists
Little Quirky Waltz - For Piano (ca. 1975)
12-Tone Piece For Two Pianos, Four Hands (11/80)
Romantic “Style Copy” Waltz-For Piano
Short Piano Piece

--Unfinished Sketches:

Piano Piece-Dusk/Fog,Bayou/Loon (3/11/84)
Trumpet Concerto (1/12/86)
Lullabye Of The Leaves (Arrangement)
Canon For Strings (1985)
Septet (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Violin & Viola)
Quintet (Flute,Bb Clarinet,Alto Sax, Bb Bass Clarinet & Vibes)
Quartet (Oboe, Viola, Double Bass & Piano)
Lugubrious Efflluvium
Demossville Stomp
Pat at grand pianoPatrick Kelly (b. 2/17/54) - I have been deeply involved in music since the age of 14. I was initially exposed to the piano as child while listening to my mother playing “St. Louis Blues”, “It Had To Be You” and other popular, semi-classical and novelty pieces. (She had aspired as a child to play piano for the silent movies). I heard Roman Catholic liturgical music at daily Mass (pre-and post- Vatican II), tuned and played my brother’s ukelele, and watched with interest as Leonard Bernstein discussed the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen on PBS specials. I requested trumpet lessons at age 11 and was self-taught on piano beginning at age 14, finding that I could pick out melodies and harmonies easily. A profound musical awakening occured while on an afternoon walk in which I understood and internalized the configuration of musical intervals. I was compelled to explore the music of Frank Zappa, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Sun Ra and others. My first formal piano lessons occured at age 18 in the Preparatory Department of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). During this same time period I began to be active playing jazz and I benefited greatly from playing with great musicians like Jimmy McGary and Cal Collins. I matriculated at CCM at age 25, pursuing studies in composition with Joel Hoffman and Allen Sapp and piano studies with Charles Clevenger, Eugene Flemm, and Margaret McNamara. There I studied the music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg and other 20th century composers. I was awarded the Bertha Langhorst Werner Scholarship in composition and earned a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition in 1984. I have played rock, jazz, R&B, funk and Latin, and big band music professionally and have composed in those mediums as well as electronic, aleatoric and avant-garde forms.