| Josh Hummel Musician |
Creating music that is artistically rich and unabashedly beautiful is the credo of composer and pianist, Josh Hummel. Josh is the owner of Sinensis Music, composes a wide variety of ambient and concert music, and just formed Hartford-based ambient duo, ARIL. EXPERIENCE Sinensis Music, Hartford, CTOwner Composition Studio specializing in concert music, electro-acoustic and computer music, film and theatre music, ambient sound art, mixed media. Adjunct Faculty and Director of Musical Ensembles Capital Community College Courses: Piano I, History and Appreciation of Music, History of American Music, Academic Reading, Fundamentals of English Composition Graduate Fellow of Music Theory Hartt School of Music Courses: Diatonic Harmony, Fundamentals of Music Theory Teaching Faculty Hartford Christian Academy Courses: British Literature and English Composition and Grammar Acting, Interpretive Speech, Public Speaking, Biblical Studies in Acts Junior High Appreciation of Music Music Director Hartford Christian Academy Hartford Christian Academy Choristers Hartford Christian Academy Chorale Hartford Christian Academy Chorus Junior High Choir Graduate Assistant of Speech Communication Bob Jones University Course: Fundamentals of Public Speaking AWARDS The Leonard Bernstein Award for Composition, ASCAP, 2010The Frederick Fennell Prize for best original score for concert band, ASCAP/CBDNA, 2010 The Diemente Prize for Composition, Hartt School of Music, 2010 First Place, Spectrum Singers 30th Anniversary Choral Composition Competition, 2010 Honorable Mention, ESOTERICS International Choral Composition Competition, 2009 First Place, Soundforth Choral Composition Competition, 2004 COMMISSIONS Haiku Symphony No. 5, orchestra - commissioned by Central Connecticut State University, September 2010. Clam Chowder, string quartet - commissioned by the Culinary Arts department of the University of Hartford, March 2010. Orpheus, chamber orchestra - commissioned by Emergence, an interdisciplinary collaborative sponsored by the Hartt School of Music, March 2010. Hungry Hearts, film score - commissioned by the Hartt School of Music and the West Hartford Jewish Film Festival, March 2010. Blossoms, three caprices for solo flute - commissioned by the Katie Lansdale Violin Studio, Hartt School of Music, November 2010. Icarus, flute, clarinet, saxophone, piano - commissioned by the Namaste Ensemble for their 2009 fall tour of Italy and 2010 residency at the Hartt School of Music. Twelfth Night, theatre music - commissioned by the Hartt School Theatre Division to compose original music for their fall 2009 production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night directed by Robert Davis. What Wondrous Love is This, SSA - commissioned by the New England Girls' Choir for their 2009 concert season. Firestorm, for bayan quintet - commissioned by the Hartt School Composers Seminar and University "Jurja Dobrile" in Pula, Croatia. Premiered May 14, 2009 in Croatia. Commedia, wind quintet and harpsichord - commissioned by the Hartt School Composition Department and Performance 20/20 for the 2009 Prism concert, April 4, 2009. EDUCATION B.Mus. piano proficiency M.A. Fine Arts, theatre/dramatic production concentration M.Mus. in Composition |