Background
PATTERSON, Annie W. was born in Lurgan, Company Armagh. Of French Huguenot descent, and related by mother’s family to Lord Macaulay.
PATTERSON, Annie W. was born in Lurgan, Company Armagh. Of French Huguenot descent, and related by mother’s family to Lord Macaulay.
Studied at Alexandra College. Royal Irish Academy, of Music, Dublin. Examiner in Music at Royal University of Ireland, 1892-1895.
Re-elected, 1900; Examiner in Music to Irish Intermediate Board of Education, 1900-1901. Conductor Dublin Choral Union. Organist at several Dublin churches, 1887 -97.
Originator of “Feis Ceoil” (Irish Musical Festival) Movement.
Conductor Hampstead Harmonic Society, 1898. Professor of Music, journalist, lecturer, and composer.
Organist, Saint Anne Shandon, Cork. Music.Doc., Bachelor of Arts, Royal University of Ireland.
Scholar and Organ Gold Medallist, R.I.A.M.