Patrick Castro:  

ett Community College. I sang with Ted Wahlstrom and learned a great deal. I transferred to the University of Puget Sound and sang in the Adelphian Concert Choir, even spendng a semester in Vienna, Austria. I graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1975 and completed my Master of Music degree at Central Washington University in 1980. Later, I studied Choral Conducting at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Workplace I have been a choral director, professionally, for the past 29 years. This has afforded me the opportunity to work with students from elementary age to adults. I have even been the director of a professional choral ensemble. As I am now approaching retirement (after next year, 2005)I realize how very fortunate I have been to have had such wonderful teachers who were so willing to share the joy of music with me. Particularly when I did not deserve their willingness! People like Ted Walhstrom at Everett C. C. and Dr. Bruce Rodgers at the University of Puget Sound. Though both of these fine conductors are now gone, I owe them a great deal, as far as my musical education is concerned. I can only hope that I have passed on a small fraction of what they gave me!