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Joshua Fineberg (born July 26, 1969) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
He has collaborated with IRCAM as a lecturer for seminars and as compositional coordinator for their 1996 four week summer course. Besides his compositional and pedagogical activities, he has collaborated with computer science and music psychology to develop tools for computer assisted composition and in music cognition research. He has worked with performing ensembles as artistic director for recordings of many European ensembles and soloists, and during the 1999–2000 season directed both Speculum Musicae (New York City) and the Columbia Sinfonietta (Boston). Fineberg edited two issues of the Contemporary Music Review on spectral music" (vol. 19, pt. 2 & 3). From 2003 to 2009 he served as the US editor of the Contemporary Music Review.
Fineberg's works include Recueil de Pierre et de sable for two harps and ensemble (commissioned by Radio France and premiered by Continuum), Veils (commissioned by Thomas Forrest Kelly and premiered by Robert Levin), and Shards (commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation and premiered by the New Millennium Ensemble). He worked on an evening-length modern dance/theater piece with the Belgian choreographer and founding member of the Wooster Group Jim Clayburgh based on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
A monographic CD of his music recorded by the Ensemble Court-Circuit was released in 2002 as a part of Universal France's Accord/Una Corda collection, another CD recorded by the Ensemble FA was released by Mode Records in June 2009, and in 2012 a CD with his complete works for piano, performed by Marilyn Nonken, was released by Divine Art/Métier. Sonic Fictions, a new CD of his works was released in 2018, also by Divine Art/Métier. Major projects include an "imaginary opera" based on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita for actor, dancers, video, ensemble and electronics realized in collaboration with JOJI; Speaking in Tongues, a concerto written for Les Percussions de Strasbourg's 50th anniversary tour, Objets trouvé written for the ensemble Court-circuit and La Quintina for string quartet and electronics written for the Arditti Quartet and premiered at the Ultraschall festival in Berlin that marked the first co-realization between the ExperimentalStudio in Freiburg and IRCAM in Paris. In June 2017, Chicago's Dal Niente Ensemble and Mocrep premiered his take my hand..., an evening-length immersive musical theater that explores ecstatic states.
In 1992, his work for large orchestra ORIGINS was selected by the international jury of the Gaudeamus Foundation as a finalist for the Gaudeamus International Composers Award and was premiered by the Radio Symfonie Orkest of the N.O.S. during the 1992 Gaudeamus Music Week.
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