Josh is a composer and performance-maker crafting bold, collaborative, and immersive works
About me
(b. 1990) is a British composer and performance-maker based in Norway since 2018. His work spans music, theatre, and storytelling, creating bold, boundary-pushing experiences that explore queerness, memory, and transformation through deeply collaborative processes.
Josh studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and the University of Manchester.
Recent performances include lipsync serenades for soft occasions by Tze Yeung Ho, a piece for three tam-tams written for SISU Percussion Ensemble, and a solo collaboration with Alwynne Pritchard, FRAMEWALKER now published by Verlag Neue Musik.
Josh is currently composing Øya er død, a large-scale geo-located installation and full organ score for the island of Ingøya in Northern Norway, bringing its distant and recent histories to life while questioning whether the island is “dead or not.”
In 2024, Josh performed in Tze Yeung Ho’s Altersea Opera at the Venice Biennale and toured his award-winning solo lipsync show How Now Brown Cow to KLANG Festival (Copenhagen), Copenhagen Pride, and Stockholm Fringe, where it received the Theatre and Spoken Word Prize. He also presented a site-specific version of the piece at Prom Noir, an immersive event 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, he collaborated with Ensemble Garage in Cologne alongside Caitlin Rowley and Yuka Ohta, creating a new piece for percussion and live electronics. That same year, 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 premieres PIGSPIGSPIGS—a darkly comic music-theatre work about a rural English family farm unraveling under debt, alcoholism, and the supernatural. Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, SPOR, and Borealis Festival, the piece blends haunting folk-horror imagery with experimental music-theatre.
Also in 2025, Bastard Assignments debuts HOUSE, an eight-hour performance installation at Musik Installationen Nürnberg, where the group inhabits a domestic environment that transforms through time, objects, and sound.
