Teaching artist, Patrick Roulet is the percussion professor and former music department chair at Western Washington University in Bellingham. During his 30-year career in music education, he has taught at Towson University and Southern Utah University and summer music camps for both youth and adults at the New England Music Camp in Maine and the Midsummer Musical Retreat in Washington state.

Patrick contributes to the local musical community in northwest Washington as a performer and/or board member with the Bellingham Festival of Music, Whatcom Wind Ensemble, Bellingham Symphony, Skagit Valley Chorale, Saratoga Orchestra, and the Bellingham Traditional Jazz Society. He has freelanced in several metropolitan areas performing with the Seattle Symphony and orchestras in Washington, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Utah. His profound curiosity for global music inspired him to study drumming and xylophone playing in Ghana, West Africa where he also experienced the joyful and powerful connection between music and community.

He finds music in all sounds from birdsong to steam trains to church bells and is driven to discover and create sounds and colors that connect the natural world and the human experience.