Patti has been a member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra since 1992. Prior to joining SFO, she played in the New World Symphony from 1988-1992, under Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. In 2016, she published her first book entitled Sticking It Out-From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit. Her book won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award’s Silver MedalPerforming Arts Category and was named Philadelphia Inquirer’s Best Classical Music Book of 2016.