Joshua Penman was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1979. His piece, The Structure and Function of Pointwise Periodic Homeomorphisms for bass clarinet, trombone, electric guitar and drum set won the 1998 BMI Student Composers Awards, Leaves Topeka at 4:17 PM, traveling at 65 MPH for the Elision Saxophone Quartet won the 1999 NACUSA East Coast Chapter call for scores, and 'till I found you for harp and percussion was played in Alice Tully Hall this December. His current projects include fulfilling a commission for the guitar and violin ensemble Duo46, writing a piece for pianists Terrence Wilson and John Root, and finishing Neon Goddesses and Rave Dreams a piece for the Yale Concert Band. Many of his works have been performed in New Haven and Boston, including in Just-spring for eight cellos performed by Jonathan Edwards Chamber Players, and Cantata performed by the Yale Bach Society Chorus. His compositions have also been performed at many prestigious music festivals including the Gamper Music Festival of Contemporary Music, Music '98, and the Penman_ATB1 Bowdin Summer Music Festival. Joshua is a junior at Yale University majoring in Music and Mathematics,and his teachers have included Luciano Berio, John McDonald, Kathryn Alexander, John Halle, Sebastian Currier, Derek Bermel, Yehudi Wyner, and 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner Aaron Jay Kernis. He is currently spending a semester abroad at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the studio of Louis Andriessen.
Web: http://www.duo46.com/Penman_ATB1.html (2000)