Mr. Ryan Patterson is a choir teacher at Olmsted Falls Middle School. This is his eighth year at OFMS and his eleventh year teaching. Before coming to OFMS, he taught general and choral music at Buckeye Local Schools in Medina. He was the director of music for the Church in Silver Lake for ten years. Mr. Patterson lives in Medina with his wife Krystle and their dog Henry. He has a Bachelor of Music Education with a Choral/Vocal emphasis from Kent State University and a Masters of Education in Educational Leadership from Baldwin-Wallace University. Mr. Patterson has performed in choirs under the direction of Dr. C M Shearer, Dr. Ben Ayling, and Mr. Charles R. Snyder. He is currently a member of Baldwin Wallace's Men's Chorus. Mr. Patterson has performed Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Canton Symphony Orchestra and Bach’s St. John’s Passion with Apollo’s Fire. Mr. Patterson is an alum of New Philadelphia High School where he received the National School Choral Award.
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Mrs. Acosta is a choir teacher at Olmsted Falls Middle School. This is her ninth year at OFMS and her 22nd year teaching middle school choir. Before coming to Olmsted Falls, Mrs. Acosta spent one year teaching at Firelands High School and South Amherst Middle School in 2002, and twelve years from 2003-2015 teaching band, choir, and general music at Green Local Schools in Smithville, Ohio. Mrs. Acosta has also been the musical director for twenty-five middle school and high school musicals, and assists Mr. Bartkowski with the fall musicals at OFMS. Mrs. Acosta received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Houghton College in New York, a Masters Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Akron, and a Masters Degree in Educational Technology from Wilkes University. Mrs. Acosta lives in Lorain with her husband, Miguel, step-daughter, Jackie, and her dogs Princess, Hazel and Mojito. Mrs. Acosta is an alumnus of Copley High School; she also received first place in the Western New York National Association of Teachers of Singing contest in 2002.