Georgette Patricio is a music performance librarian and oboist, based in the Baltimore area. She has served as a performance librarian in various ensemble, academic, and freelance settings. Georgette currently serves as the Ensemble Librarian at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she prepares music for the institute’s large ensembles (conservatory and preparatory), oversees the T. Rowe Price Ensemble Library collection, and mentors a team of Ensemble Library graduate assistants and interns. Through her mentorship, past interns of hers have gone on to work in the libraries of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival, and Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra. Georgette has spoken on the topic of ensemble librarianship through the Music Library Association’s MLStEP Coffee Hour and at the 43rd MOLA Conference. Most recently, she was awarded the opportunity to participate in MOLA’s Farabee Library Exchange Program as a visiting librarian with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Previously, Georgette has worked in the music libraries of the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Wisconsin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the San Diego Symphony, and other performance organizations in Southern California.
A versatile performing artist on the oboe and English horn, Georgette enjoys concertizing in various genres, from opera to video game music. She is an active freelancer and has performed with groups such as the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Philharmonic, the San Diego City Ballet Orchestra, the Pacific Lyric Association, and the Left Coast Quintet. When not performing or librarian-ing, Georgette teaches privately to students on the piano and oboe.
Aside from her involvement in producing music, Georgette advocates for Asian American representation in music and media. She has led and managed cultural events to promote diversity in the community, given attention to non-binary and female BIPOC artists, and advocated for assistance in global causes affecting music education. From her studies, she has submitted several theses on Filipino and Filipinx-American music. Her master’s thesis, “With The Butterfly Sleeves Naka Filipiniana”: Contemporary Study of Filipinx American Women in Popular Music, was presented at the 2024 Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Conference. Georgette is active in the DMV-chapter of FANHS.
Georgette Patricio has earned several degrees and certificates in music history, library science, oboe performance, and arts management from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Denver, and the California State University, Long Beach. Her former primary oboe teachers were Katherine Young Steele, Claire Brazeau, and Sarah Skuster. She has also studied with Joseph Stone, Jessica Pearlman, and Electra Reed O’Mara. Her piano teacher was Bobby J. Hearns.
She plays on a Marigaux 920 Altu Noir oboe and an F. Lorée Royal English horn.