Joshua Shank, 1408 Braes Ridge Drive, Unit B Austin, TX 78723 (651) 353 - 6558 www.joshuashank.com [email protected]

EDUCATION

D.M.A . (In progress) University of Texas at Austin Major: Music Composition Composition Teachers: Russel Pinkston, and Yevgeniy Sharlat

M.M. 2012 University of Texas at Austin Major: Music Composition Composition Teachers: Donald Grantham, Daniel Cat án, Dan Welcher, Russel Pinkston, Yevgeniy Sharlat, and Bruce Pennycook

B.A. 2003 Luther College; Decorah, IA Major: Education Composition Teachers: John Howell Morrison and Neil Flory Teachers: Weston Noble and Timothy Peter

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2004-2014 Composer-in-Residence , The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN 2014 Album of choral works, Sunday Night Singers—Los Angeles, CA 2013 Composer-in-Residence , Harvard Women's Choral Festival 2012 Composer-in-Residence , One Voice Chorus, Charlotte, North Carolina Program notes for album, Samuel Barber: American Romantic, on the Harmonia Mundi label—Conspirare, Austin, TX Composer-in-Residence , Association for Music in International Schools Festival, Vienna, Austria 2011 Composer-in-Residence , One Voice Chorus, Charlotte, North Carolina 2009 Staff , Interlochen Arts Camp - All-State ensembles Judge , Choral Horizons Composition Contest, The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists 2008 Composer-in-Residence , Vox Musica, Sacramento, CA (Full-concert retrospective of works written from 2001-2007) 2006 Contributor , Teaching Music Through Performance in , Volume 2, edited by Heather Buchanan and Matthew Mehaffey, GIA publications. 2005 Staff , World Festival of Singing for Men and Boys (Sponsored by the Alliance for Arts and Understanding) Featured Composer , ACDA National Convention, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Featured Composer , ACDA National Convention, New York City, NY

COMMISSIONED WORKS 2016 new choral work title TBD—The Choral Project, San Diego, CA 2015 Magnificat for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (full version), ( and women's voices)—Lorelei Ensemble, Boston, MA We are the song (SATB and Piano)--One Voice Chorus, Charlotte, NC new choral work title TBD—Boston Gay Men's Chorus 2014 love song (SATB, a cappella) —The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN Songs for Seven Days (song cycle for choir)--Blue Valley North West High School Chamber Singers, Kansas City, KS 2013 Your children (are not your children) (new arrangement for TTBB and 4-hands piano)--Boston Gay Men's Chorus The Maker (SATB and Piano)—Conspirare, Austin, TX Everything (SATB and )—Jacob High School Chamber Choir, Chicago, IL the multitude (SATB, 2 guitars, and 2 percussionists)—Convergence Vocal Ensemble, Austin, TX 2013 (cont'd) The Boy Who Picked Up His Feet to Fly (new orchestration for SATB and string quintet)—ACDA National Middle School Honor Choir, national convention, Dallas, TX Magnificat for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (cantata version), (piano and women's voices)—Lorelei Ensemble, Boston, MA 2012 Summer * (SATB, a cappella)—Sunday Night Singers, Los Angeles, CA Drone Meditation No. 1 (Whatever Happens) (SATB and Piano)—Youth Chorale of Central Minnesota Services of Snow ϯ (Soprano and Piano)--Jessica Hardy, Oklahoma City, OK the lesson (SATB and Piano)—Coker College, Hartsville, SC Sie nicht mehr gehen würde, sondern fliegen (SSA and Piano)—Association for Music in International Schools, Vienna, Austria Imaginary Lines ** (SATB and Piano)—Flower Mound High School Choir, Flower Mound, TX He Was Singing ¥ (SATB and Piano)—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN 2011 program notes, “Samuel Barber: An American Romantic”—Conspirare, Austin, TX A Christmas Carol (orchestration for SATB and Chamber )—The Choral Project, San Diego, CA Portrait ( and Piano)—Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX The Boy Who Picked Up His Feet to Fly * (new arrangement for TTBB and Piano)—Illinois State University Men’s Glee Club, Normal, IL Program Notes, “Jocelyn Hagen’s amass ”—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN 2010 Daughter Ecstatic (SATB, a cappella)—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN songs about most of my friends (SATB, a cappella)—The Esoterics, Seattle, WA Your children (are not your children) ¥ (SATB and 4-hands )—Minnesota All-State Choir, Northfield, MN Aria with Lydian falls: “I had a dream once” (SATB and Piano)—Meistersingers, Orange, CA To My Parents ¥ (SATB, a cappella)—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN Spring * (SATB, a cappella)—Brownsburg High School Choir, Brownsburg, IN Trois Méditations (Soprano, Piano and Harp)—Jessica Hardy, Orange, CA 2009 Two Sisters * (TB and Piano)—Prior Lake High School Meistersingers, Prior Lake, MN Cinq Chansons de la Vigne (SATB, Soprano Solo and Piano)—Chapman University Singers, Orange, CA To Sing You To Sleep (TTBB, a cappella)—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN 2008 Naalah (Cry of Grief) * (SATB and )—Flower Mound High School Chorale, Flower Mound, TX Passages: Songs on Octavio Paz , (SATB and Piano)—Festival Choir of Madison, Madison, WI Color Madrigals, Volume 3 ϯ (SATB, a cappella)—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN 2007 From Where I Stood * (SATB and Piano)—Ankeny High School Concert Choir, Ankeny, IA Color Madrigals, Volume 2 ϯ (SATB, a cappella)—Summer Singers, Minneapolis, MN Sleeping Out: Full Moon * (SATB and Piano)—Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, New York, NY In Magna Symphonia ***(SSAA, a cappella)—Nebraska Children’s Chorus Bel Canto, Omaha, NE Two Proverbs (SAB, and Piano)—South Saint Paul High School, Saint Paul, MN Color Madrigals, Volume 1 ϯ (SATB, a cappella)—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN 2006 A Christmas Carol * (SATB and Piano)—Mesa High School, Mesa, AZ Nell Flaherty’s Drake (SATB, Banjo, Mandolin, Violin and )—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis Four Spanish Love Songs (SATB and Piano)—Hopkins High School Choir, Hopkins, MN when god decided to invent * (SATB and Soprano Saxophone)—Flower Mound High School Chorale, Flower Mound, TX Mad World (TTB, Piano and Oboe)—Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH 2005 Gabriel’s Message * (SATB and Soli Quartet)—The Singers: Minnesota Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN Three Nightsongs * (SSAA and Piano)—Good Company Women’s Choir, Ames, IA The Arrow and the Song * (SATB and Piano)—White Bear Lake High School Choir, White Bear Lake, MN The Minstrel Boy * (SATB, a cappella)—Hudson High School Chamber Choir, Hudson, WI 2004 Where is Love? ** (SATB and Piano)—Choral Arts Ensemble, Rochester, MN Go, Tell It on the Mountain * (SATB, a cappella)—The Singers: MN Choral Artists, Minneapolis, MN Autumn * (SATB Chorus, a cappella)—Choral Arts Ensemble (Dale Warland, conductor), Rochester, MN Wynken, Blynken and Nod * (SATB and Cello)—Northern Arizona University Singers, Flagstaff, AZ 2003 winter * (SATB Chorus and Soli Quartet)—Northern Arizona University Shrine of the Ages Choir, Flagstaff, AZ Two Songs of Release * (SSAATTBB, a cappella)—Kantorei, Denver, CO The Arrow and The Song * (SSA and Piano)—Waukee Middle School, Waukee, IA The Boy Who Picked Up His Feet to Fly * (SATB and Piano)—Brooklyn Center High School, Brooklyn Center, MN NON-COMMISSIONED WORKS 2012 How About Here (chamber orchestra)—CLUTCH Chamber Players, Austin, TX 2011 Bright Music (for Daniel Catán) (, , vibraphone, piano, , celesta, and glockenspiel)-- University of Texas New Music Ensemble, Austin, TX Persist (violin, cello and piano)—CLUTCH Piano Trio, Austin, TX Flocking Music (flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello and piano)—University of Texas New Music Ensemble 2010 Steep Music (string quartet)—Aeolus Quartet, Austin, TX 2002 Moonrise (wind ensemble)—Luther College , Decorah, IA (published by Daehn Publications)

* Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing ** Published by Hal Leonard *** Published by Alliance Music Publications ϯ Published by Graphite Publications ¥ Published by G. Schirmer

AWARDS/HONORS 2011 • Moonrise named winner of concert band composition contest sponsored by the University of California - Bakersfield. 2010 • A Grass-Green Pillow (from Color Madrigals ) named winner of composition contest sponsored by the Sacra Profana Ensemble (San Diego, CA). • Musica animam tangens named winner of composition contest sponsored by the Society for Universal Sacred Music • Received the VocalEssence Creative Programming Award sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota and VocalEssence for work commissioning new choral works for the ensembles at Prior Lake High School. 2009 • Blue! ‘Tis the Life of Heaven (from Color Madrigals ) featured in nationally-broadcast documentary on choral music in Minnesota, Never Stop Singing. 2008

• A Grass-Green Pillow (from Color Madrigals ) named winner of the 11 th Annual Choral Composition Contest as sponsored by the Cambridge Chamber Singers. 2007 • Sleeping Out: Full Moon named winner of Nathan Davis Prize in Choral Music as sponsored by the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus 2005 • Recipient of full scholarship from the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota’s F. Melius Christiansen Endowment Fund • Recipient of full scholarship from the René Clausen Choral School • The Boy Who Picked Up His Feet to Fly featured in Choral Charisma: Singing with Expression by Tom Carter, Santa Barbara Music Publications. 2002 • Youngest ever recipient of American Choral Directors Association’s Raymond W. Brock Composition Award for Musica animam tangens 2001 • Finalist for ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award

MASTER CLASSES Oct. 2011 Paul Dresher, University of Texas at Austin Aug. 2011 Michael Torke, University of Texas at Austin April 2011 Anthony Iannaccone, University of Texas at Austin April 2002 Kjell Habestad, Luther College Dec. 2001 Gwyneth Walker, Luther College April 2001 Bonnie Miksch, Luther College April 2001 Christopher Penrose, Luther College