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I live in Philadelphia, creating experimental music for performers and electronics. My work connects formal and sonic aspects of popular music with classical performance practice and sound art. More recently, I’ve focused on projects which transform the traditional concert space or leave it behind completely.
I’m currently creating an evening-length, theater work for actor-vocalist, mixed chamber ensemble, electronics, lighting, and video. I’m also collaborating with visual artist Michelle Lopez and sound artist Eugene Lew on The Joplin Project, which features a robot in choreographed motion beneath a hemispherical video projection. |
bio
Described as “imaginative and daring” (Broad Street Review) and “trippy . . . forward looking” (Oregon Arts Watch), Joshua Hey's music has been performed by leading ensembles such as the Daedalus String Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Ensemble Dal Niente, Quatuor Bozzini, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Omaha Symphony, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, and soloists of Ensemble Intercontemporain. Festivals and venues which have presented his work include IRCAM-ManiFeste, Nokia Bell Labs, Musiikin Aika (Time of Music, FIN), reMusik’s St. Petersburg International New Music Festival, and the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau.
Josh has received first prize in the Salvatore Martirano Award and Sergei Slonimsky International Composition Competition, residencies from Copland House and Yaddo, and a Barlow General Commission. His work has been further supported by the American Composers Forum-Philadelphia, ICon Arts (ROU), Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, and Network for New Music. In 2014-15, he was a visiting scholar at the Sibelius Academy with a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. He has earned degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 2019), the Eastman School of Music (M.A. 2010), and the University of Missouri-Kansas City (B.M. 2010).
Josh has received first prize in the Salvatore Martirano Award and Sergei Slonimsky International Composition Competition, residencies from Copland House and Yaddo, and a Barlow General Commission. His work has been further supported by the American Composers Forum-Philadelphia, ICon Arts (ROU), Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, and Network for New Music. In 2014-15, he was a visiting scholar at the Sibelius Academy with a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. He has earned degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 2019), the Eastman School of Music (M.A. 2010), and the University of Missouri-Kansas City (B.M. 2010).
