A Maryland native, Patrick Carter began playing the oboe at the age of eight, studying with the late Judith Famous. He is an alumnus of the Harford Youth Orchestra and the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra, in which he served as principal oboist for both groups.  Making annual appearances in the Harford County All County band and orchestra, he also participated in several Maryland All State ensembles throughout middle and high school.  Carter also studied with Jane Marvine, solo English Horn with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and with Mary Watt at Kinhaven Music School in Weston, Vermont, where he studied for three summers in high school. 

Carter will receive his Bachelor’s degree in oboe performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance in Ann Arbor in the spring of 2010.  A student of Nancy Ambrose King, he has performed with the University Symphony Band, and was a member of the University Symphony Orchestra’s 2008 tour that culminated at Carnegie Hall.  Carter was also invited to participate in the 2007 Eastern Music Festival, where he was a student of Randall Ellis, and spent five weeks during the summer of 2008 with Oberlin Conservatory’s opera festival, where he toured Tuscany with various chamber music ensembles and as principal oboe for the program’s production of The Marriage of Figaro. 

Also a strong academic student, Carter served for two years as a student representative on the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s Alumni Society Board of Governors.  In the summer of 2009, he was selected as a member of the University’s prestigious Development Summer Internship Program, where he worked in the Development Office of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.  After graduation, Carter hopes to pursue a career in arts administration.