Josh is a composer and performance-maker crafting bold, collaborative, and immersive works
About me
Josh (b. 1990) is a British composer and performance-maker who has lived in Norway since 2018. He creates bold, boundary-pushing works that combine music, theatre, and storytelling, often exploring themes of queerness, memory, and transformation through collaborative processes.
Josh studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and the University of Manchester.
In 2025, Josh will perform Tze Yeung Ho’s lipsync serenades for soft occasions for lipsyncer, theorbo, and audio. He has composed a piece for three tam-tams for SISU Percussion Ensemble and a solo performance for Alwynne Pritchard. Additionally, Josh is the composer and audio lead for a geo-located audio tour on Ingøy, a remote island in Northern Norway. This project brings the island's distant and recent past to life while questioning whether the island is "dead or not."
In 2024, Josh played saxophone in Tze Yeung Ho’s Altersea Opera at the Venice Biennale in the Nordic Pavilion. He toured his award-winning solo lipsync show, How Now Brown Cow, to KLANG Festival (DK), Copenhagen Pride, and Stockholm Fringe, where it won the Theatre and Spoken Word Prize. Josh also presented a site-specific version of the piece at Prom Noir, an immersive event he co-produced with Ann-Helen Schjølberg in Oslo.
In 2023, Josh received a commission from Dramatikkens Hus (Oslo) to develop How Now Brown Cow. He also participated in the Biljoke Summer Academy (BE) with his group, Bastard Assignments.
In 2022, Josh collaborated with Ensemble Garage in Cologne alongside Caitlin Rowley and Yuka Ohta, creating a new piece for percussion and live electronics. He performed as a soloist in Marcela Lucatelli’s opera at Copenhagen Opera Festival and took part in Ann-Helen Schjølberg’s site-specific theatre work Urge Displacement in Vadsø, Norway.
Josh has been a member of Bastard Assignments since 2014. In 2025, the group will premiere PIGSPIGSPIGS, a music-theatre piece following a family farm in rural England besieged by alcoholism, debt, and the supernatural. Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, SPOR, and Borealis Festival, the piece combines dark humor with haunting music. The group will also debut HOUSE, a performance installation premiering at Musik Installationen in Nuremberg.
