PATRICK MEIGHAN, The Albert N. Tipton Professor of Music at the Florida State University College of Music, was appointed the University's first artist-teacher of saxophone in 1974. He has concertized extensively as a soloist and ensemble recitalist, having appeared in music festivals and on radio and television in Albania, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Japan, Kosovo, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Switzerland. Meighan has performed throughout the continental United States (including Lincoln Center), Australia, Canada, China, Europe, and South America and has received critical acclaim "...most exceptional, with an otherworldly tone and fluid technique..." - Musical America; "...a musician to the fingertips...incapable of an ugly sound...the nonchalance of mastery..." - The West Australian; "...a first-rate musician with a beautiful silken quality of tone and superb technique..." - Zagreb Radio, Croatia; and "The Debussy Rhapsody for Orchestra and Saxophone was a delightful surprise…filtered through Patrick Meighan’s musical sensitivity and superb technique, the instrument showed itself capable of a variety of sounds of rare delicacy and fine texture, wholly in keeping with the transparency achieved by the orchestra." - Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Professor Meighan has served as principal saxophonist with The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, The Jacksonville Symphony (FL), The Florida West Coast Symphony, The Naples Philharmonic (FL), and Keith Brion and His New Sousa Band. As a jazz/pop/rock instrumentalist, he has appeared with Sammy Davis Jr., Vic Damone, Larry Elgart, Joe Lovano, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormé, Three Mo’ Tenors, Johnny Mathis, Bernadette Peters, The Four Tops, The Jackson Five, and The Temptations. He was also invited to join The Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1973.

Meighan holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College and The University of Michigan. His teachers have been Samuel Pattie, Galan Kral, Larry Teal, and pioneering classical saxophonist Sigurd Raschèr. Among his credits are: 2nd place in the 1974 Kingsport Symphony Orchestra National Concerto Competition; an eight city recital tour of Colombia sponsored by a 1988 Partners of the Americas Grant; a 1992 Fulbright Grant to Australia; a bronze medal at The 1993 International Chamber Music Competition and Festa in Osaka, Japan; and three university awards for excellence in teaching. As part of a 1999 cultural resurrection project entitled Artists for Peace, Tolerance, and Democracy, Mr. Meighan collaborated with the Albanian Symphony Orchestra to give performances of the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto in Kosovo and Macedonia. The European-based Raschèr Saxophone Orchestra invited Mr. Meighan to become a member of its ensemble in the summer of 2000, and the orchestra’s debut concert took place that fall season at the prestigious Ludwigsburg Music Festival in Germany. The RSO’s first recording (BIS-NL-CD 5023) was released in the fall of 2002.

 Professor Meighan has been referenced in three annual editions of Who's Who Among America's Teachers. His students have won national and international solo and chamber music competitions and hold positions on music faculties in the United States and abroad. Three former students are currently members of the internationally renowned Raschèr Saxophone Quartet.