Patrick Grimone has an active teaching and freelance career in Western Mass and Connecticut. He plays regularly with the New England Repertory Orchestra, Waterbury Chorale, and Connecticut Symphony. He teaches at NCMC, as well as the Community Music School of Springfield. He received his BM from Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music and his MM from the University of Maryland, where his principal teachers included Mark Ostoich, Dwight Parry, Christopher Philpotts, and Mark Hill.