Wendel's profile
Wendel Patrick has been referred to as "David Foster Wallace reincarnated as a sound engineer" by Urbanite Magazine and as "wildly talented" by the Baltimore Sun. He has been referred to by XLR8R magazine as "a hip-hop producer that could easily make any fan of Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, or Madlib flip out." The alter-ego of classical and jazz pianist Kevin Gift, Wendel Patrick is rapidly making a name for himself as a producer to be recognized. His five albums, "Sound:", "Forthcoming", "JDWP", "Passage" and "Travel" were all produced without the use of samples, with Patrick playing every note of every instrument. What is perhaps most astounding and perplexing to listeners is that there are actually no instruments...he crafts all of the instruments, and every note, electronically.
Equally at home performing on stage with his band, behind two turntables, beatboxing, improvising, or playing a Mozart Concerto on stage with orchestra, Wendel Patrick has toured Europe on several occasions and performed throughout the world with renowned spoken word artist and poet Ursula Rucker (The Roots, 4Hero). In 2014 Wendel Patrick traveled to Australia as a guest lecturer, speaking about music production and entrepreneurship in the arts at The Australian Institute of Music in Sydney and Melbourne. In 2011 Wendel Patrick co-founded the Baltimore Boom Bap Society, with Erik Spangler (DJ Dubble8) that performs monthly improvised hip hop shows with hand picked musicians and emcees. The monthly event was chosen by the Baltimore City Paper as the "Best New Hip Hop Night" of 2012. Wendel Patrick's music has also been heard across the country on NPR stations, most notably on "OUT OF THE BLOCKS: 3300 Greenmount Ave." an award winning program he co-produced with radio producer Aaron Henkin for WYPR that has been featured by the Third Coast International Audio Festival and Hearing Voices as well as the BBC. The program was also chosen as "Best Radio Project" of 2012 by City paper.
In addition to his music Wendel Patrick is an avid photographer and videographer. His photography has been featured on NPR, and he shoots all of the accompanying documentary photography and videography for "OUT OF THE BLOCKS". He has filmed and directed numerous music videos for other artists.
Wendel Patrick/Kevin Gift majored in both music and political science at Emory University and earned his M.M. in Piano Performance as a scholarship student at the Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston Illinois. He was a full time professor of music at Loyola University in Baltimore from where he taught piano, introduction to music theory, romantic music history and electronic music production for eleven years from 2002-2013. Since 1998 Wendel Patrick has spoken at hundreds of programs in elementary schools in Baltimore City and throughout the greater Maryland area through Young Audiences of Maryland and The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's former Arts Excel program.
Equally at home performing on stage with his band, behind two turntables, beatboxing, improvising, or playing a Mozart Concerto on stage with orchestra, Wendel Patrick has toured Europe on several occasions and performed throughout the world with renowned spoken word artist and poet Ursula Rucker (The Roots, 4Hero). In 2014 Wendel Patrick traveled to Australia as a guest lecturer, speaking about music production and entrepreneurship in the arts at The Australian Institute of Music in Sydney and Melbourne. In 2011 Wendel Patrick co-founded the Baltimore Boom Bap Society, with Erik Spangler (DJ Dubble8) that performs monthly improvised hip hop shows with hand picked musicians and emcees. The monthly event was chosen by the Baltimore City Paper as the "Best New Hip Hop Night" of 2012. Wendel Patrick's music has also been heard across the country on NPR stations, most notably on "OUT OF THE BLOCKS: 3300 Greenmount Ave." an award winning program he co-produced with radio producer Aaron Henkin for WYPR that has been featured by the Third Coast International Audio Festival and Hearing Voices as well as the BBC. The program was also chosen as "Best Radio Project" of 2012 by City paper.
In addition to his music Wendel Patrick is an avid photographer and videographer. His photography has been featured on NPR, and he shoots all of the accompanying documentary photography and videography for "OUT OF THE BLOCKS". He has filmed and directed numerous music videos for other artists.
Wendel Patrick/Kevin Gift majored in both music and political science at Emory University and earned his M.M. in Piano Performance as a scholarship student at the Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston Illinois. He was a full time professor of music at Loyola University in Baltimore from where he taught piano, introduction to music theory, romantic music history and electronic music production for eleven years from 2002-2013. Since 1998 Wendel Patrick has spoken at hundreds of programs in elementary schools in Baltimore City and throughout the greater Maryland area through Young Audiences of Maryland and The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's former Arts Excel program.
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