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Michael Patilla
Dr. Michael Patilla

Assistant Professor
Guitar

guitar@colled.msstate.edu
(662) 325-2866
Music Building A, Room D

  • D. M. A. Eastman School of Music (NY)
  • M. M. University of Southern Mississippi (MS)
  • B. M. University of Montevallo (AL)

Classical guitarist Michael Patilla has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Central America and has been warmly received by audiences and critics. Some of the accolades include, "American guitarist Michael Patilla delighted the audience with his excellent performance." (Roque Galo, El Pais), "...dexterous fingers...brilliant technique..." (Michael Huebner, The Birmingham News), "Michael Patilla sharing the works of his favorite South American composers is an aural and visual treat not to be missed." (Jan Swoope, The Columbus Post-Dispatch) and "Not only Patilla's fine musical sense, but the variety of the program, made for an unfailingly enchanting concert." (Karl Henning, Berkshires Arts and Entertainment).

Patilla has performed as concerto soloist with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman Chamber Orchestra, the Masterworks Festival Orchestra, the Orquesta Filarmonia de Honduras, the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra, and the Starkville Symphony Orchestra, and in addition has been a featured performer at Piccolo Spoleto, City Stages, and the Tennessee Guitar Festival.

As a 2007-2008 Fulbright scholar, Michael Patilla worked as a guest lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at the National Autonomous University (UNAH) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Music at Mississippi State University and directs the guitar program for the Masterworks Festival, an international performing arts festival held each summer in Winona Lake, Indiana.

Michael Patilla completed a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at the Eastman School of Music and has studied with such teachers as Manuel Barrueco, Julian Gray, Nicholas Goluses, Bruce Holzman, Paul O'Dette, and Raphaella Smits. Septiembre, his debut CD of music by South American composers was released in 2005. He is currently working on a project to record and publish music by Honduran composers.