This blog chronicles my journey to become the best music educator I can be.
I am a music education masters student at the University of Illinois. At Northwestern University I received my BM in Music Composition and MA in Sound Arts & Industries. At the Chicago Park District I taught preschool music, voice, piano, guitar, and wrote and music directed children’s musicals. Prior to that I interned at 98.7 WFMT, coached middle school track & field, and worked for six years with composer Paul Caldwell at the Youth Choral Theater of Chicago.
The portfolio below is a work in progress…
Radio & Podcasts
synesthesia – a podcast opera
produced by patrick hockberger
“easily one of the most creative podcasts ever.”
– jay soderberg, former head of podcasts at espn
“heartbreaking… hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important”
-jessie, between two earbuds
“a brand new art form… who has done a podcast opera before?”
-george cederquist, opera box score
“chilling… each episode is released exactly a year after the moment the gun went off.”
-syd shaw, north by northwestern
radio pieces produced for 98.7 wfmt
an interview with the vienna vegetable orchestra
and a history of synthesizers
a condensed history of the observable universe
produced by patrick hockberger
each second represents 1 billion years
original video: bbc’s planet earth
music & sound: patrick hockberger
babies & beats
sound design: patrick hockberger
sung by the northwestern undertones
music director & arranger: patrick hockberger
music & sound: patrick hockberger
