Josiah Catalan | 2022-2023 Season

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Josiah Tayag Catalan is a Filipino-American born in New York City and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a degree from The Sacramento State School of Music where he studied composition with Stephen Blumberg and Leo Eylar and violin with Anna Presler and Ian Swensen. He is a recipient of the first prize of the NACUSA Young Composer’s Competition and the Sacramento State Festival of New American Music’s Student Composer Competition, and a finalist in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Competition and the American Prize in composition. Josiah's music has been performed across North America by groups and individuals such as the Empyrean Ensemble, Dal Niente, the Arditti Quartet, the Lydian String Quartet, Ensemble Mise-en, The Iridium Saxophone Quartet, Chris Froh, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Jennifer Ellis, and Miranda Cuckson, Soo-yeon Lyuh and Ellen Ruth Rose.