Joshua Hahn

Joshua Hahn is a composer who has been presented by Boston Musica Viva, Juventas, Transient Canvas, Antico Moderno, Da Camera of Houston, Nonevent, Foundation for Modern Music, and more. Josh has also been the recipient of several awards and commissions. In 2024, he was selected by the Virginia Music Teachers Association for the Virginia commissioned composer, with a premiere at the annual conference at Virginia State University. He was awarded a grant from the Allan and Margot Blank Foundation in 2025 to present a concert of new work in Richmond, VA. His solo guitar piece, Lullaby, was awarded first prize for solo string composition by Massachusetts String Teachers Association.

Josh’s music theory scholarship has been published by Music Theory Online, a journal of the Society for Music Theory. He has also presented his music theory scholarship at the Theorizing African American Music Conference. His work focuses on analyzing rhythms, and how composers arrange groups of rhythms together into a meaningful rhythmic syntax.

Josh is also committed to cultural justice and volunteerism. He has served on the board of Castle of Our Skins, an ensemble dedicated to celebrating Black artistry, since 2018. He serves on the advisory board of Music Orchard Richmond, which provides after-school and in-school music lessons to students who would not otherwise have access to them.

Josh plays modern and historical flutes, and his collection includes a baroque flute and a 19th-century 8-key flute. He plays regularly with RVA Baroque. He is also a synthesist and electronic musician, and frequently integrates synthesized and acoustic sounds in his compositions.

Joshua received an MM in composition from Rice University and a BA summa cum laude in music from Tufts University. His teachers have included Shih-hui Chen, Anthony Brandt, and John McDonald.