Patricia Petersen holds an MFA in Early Music Performance from Sarah Lawrence College. An Assistant Director of Amherst Early Music, she is a regular faculty member at Amherst's and many other workshops. She performs on recorder and other early winds, and has appeared with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She has coached early music ensembles at Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. An ARS certified teacher, she teaches recorder, early music and notation, and English country dance in North Carolina and at workshops around the country, and has a passion for playing from facsimiles of early 15th-century music. An avid gardener, she also enjoys playing old-time music on banjo-uke.

**Patricia Petersen will be on faculty for week 2 of the 2024 Amherst Early Music Festival.