Faculty
PATRICK DORAN-SHEERAN
Dance Musician
M.A. in Music Composition, UC Riverside
sagittila@yahoo.com
Patrick Doran-Sheeran is among the top dance musicians in southern California. During his career as a professional accompanist and composer for dance and theatre, he has composed, performed, and recorded over 50 scores, including a piece for Stephanie Gilliland’s Tongue which premiered at the Getty Center in 2003, and a benefit concert created and performed by members of Cirque du Soleil in 2001.
While skilled at accompanying many styles of modern and jazz class on both percussion and piano, he also possesses the rare ability to improvise genre-appropriate material for ballet. He has accompanied for a diverse and international range of teachers and master-clinicians at several colleges and arts schools in the southern California area, and enjoyed an eight-year run at ACDF.
Patrick has taught several Music for Dance courses at Riverside Community College, and classes on Rhythm and the Nature of Art at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Students, teachers and fellow musicians have praised his revolutionary self-designed music curriculum. Patrick has held workshops on Body Rhythms and Rhythm for Dancers at Scripps College, Riverside Community College, UC Riverside, and for the California Dance Educators Association.
Patrick has performed on stages throughout the U.S. and around the world, including Vienna, Auckland, and the Sydney Opera House. He has served as musical director and arranger for such UC Riverside theatre productions as The Rocky Horror Show, Cabaret, Into the Woods, and The Good Person of Setzuan.