Pat Posey (he/they) is a versatile woodwind artist based in Los Angeles who performs a wide variety of music, appearing frequently with symphony orchestras as well as at gallery spaces and on nightclub dance floors. They are a founding member of the Los Angeles Reed Quintet and have appeared at Carnegie Hall with composers John Adams, Thomas Adés, Peter Eötvos, and Michael Tilson Thomas conducting their own works. The original music on their debut solo album they/beast was declared by BBC Music Magazine as “fiendishly virtuosic… a dazzling, unsettling spectacle by a musician pushing the creative envelope.” Recent releases include their debut as soloist in a the world premiere of a baritone saxophone concerto with the San Francisco Symphony, their debut as ESP Institute Artist with the track AMOK, and their first appearance on a dance track, the “Pat on the Sax” remix by Perfect Lovers of Whitney Weiss’ Temperance. They appear on Jongnic Bontemps’ score to Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, have collaborated with Iraqi oud virtuoso Rahim AlHaj, and in 2009 performed as ocarina soloist with the YouTube Symphony in a livestream that has been viewed over 1.7 million times. More information can be found at www.patposey.com and on Instagram @patposey