Josh Biggs

Josh Biggs (b. 22 September 1993) is a Cape Town based composer and sound designer, with recent electroacoustic and chamber work focusing on found instruments, acousmatic techniques, and gestural narrativity.

Biggs has studied with Lewis Nielson, Aaron Helgeson, Tom Lopez, and Jesse Jones, and holds a Bachelors of Music in Composition from Oberlin Conservatory, (USA, May 2017). Biggs has had works performed by the Formalist Quartet (Los Angeles), the Oberlin Sinfonietta (under Tim Weiss) and members of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. In 2017-2018, he performed on a large found instrument console with the Oberlin Contemporary New Music Ensemble (OINC), under the direction of Aurie Hsu, including a live broadcast performance on the college radio station, WOBC. Biggs has also received masterclasses from James Dillon, Anthony Cheung, and Bernard Lang.

Before Oberlin, Biggs attended both the United World College of the Adriatic, and the Trio di Trieste Chamber Music Conservatory in Duino, Italy, where – under the direction of maestros Maureen Jones, Renato Zanettovich, and Dario de Rosa – he received a diploma in Chamber Music Performance (2012).

Currently, Biggs is engaged in multiple collaborative projects with local visual- and new media artists, poets, and playwrights, with upcoming works appearing across gallery spaces in Cape Town, as well as at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival (June 2018).