Joshua Fineberg

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Joshua Fineberg (born July 26, 1969) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Fineberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Inspired by a childhood encounter with the musical Camelot, he began his musical studies at the age of five; they have included—in addition to composition—violin, guitar, piano, harpsichord and conducting. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Morris Cotel where he won first prize in the bi-annual Virginia Carty de Lillo Composition Competition. He has worked with many leading composers in the United States and France, including: George Crumb, Jacob Druckman, Robert Hall Lewis, Philippe Manoury, and André Boucourechliev. In 1991, he moved to Paris and studied with Tristan Murail. The following year he was selected by the Ensemble InterContemporain reading panel for the course in composition and musical technologies. In the Fall of 1997, he returned to the US to pursue a doctorate in musical composition at Columbia University, which he completed in May 1999. After teaching at Columbia for a year, he went to Harvard University where he served as the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humainities until 2007. In 2007 he joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Music and became the director of their electronic music studio. He has won various prizes, fellowships and scholarships including: ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers Competition; Ars Electronica special jury mention; Rapoport Pri

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Empreintes, Veils & Shards

Voix Voilées

Empreintes, Veils, and Shards

Fineberg: Sonic Fictions

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Voix Voilées (Veiled Voices) - Spectral Piano Music

Fineberg-Streamlines tremors a ripple-Ringed pool breathepar adigms...-Court-Circuit

Empreintes, Veils And Shards

Sonic Fictions

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Joshua Fineberg

Hommage à Dominique Troncin

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Voix Voilées (Marilyn Nonken)

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Ensemble FA, Dominique My, Jeffrey Milarsky, Patrice Bocuillon

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