Born in Paris and raised in Minnesota, Patricia Ahern was educated at Northwestern University, Indiana University, and the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. She has concertized throughout Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America, and has performed with Milwaukee Baroque, Ars Antigua, Chicago Opera Theater, Toronto Consort, Aradia, I Furiosi, Newberry Consort, Musica Pacifica, Toronto Bach Festival, and the Carmel Bach Festival. She taught baroque violin at the Freiburg Conservatory in Germany and Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute, as well as the Banff Evolution Quartet Program. She has given masterclasses at McGill, Western University, University of Toronto, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, California State University Long Beach, Sookmyung Women’s University (Seoul), and the Sydney Conservatorium (Australia). Patricia has played in Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra since 2002 and is a member of the Eybler String Quartet.
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