Joshua Penman enjoys simultaneous fledgling careers as a concert composer, film composer, music psychology researcher, and installation artist.  He has received commissions from the early music ensemble Lionheart, the Ann Arbor Symphony, the New York Youth Symphony, the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music, and the Prism Saxophone Quartet, as well as from Lua Productions, which recently released the dual DVD/CD Caravan of Light: Initiation/Incantation, containing both a film that he scored and a CD compilation-album to which he contributed one track.  Additionally, his music has been performed by the Cedar Rapids Symphony, the Erie Philharmonic, the Central Washington University Orchestra, the Reading Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, the Holland Symphony (in Michigan), the University of Michigan Symphony and Symphony Band, Musica Sacra, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Pianoduo Post en Mulder, the String Orchestra of New York City (SoNYC), Gamelan Galak-tika, Arraymusic, and All Rivers at Once, the now-defunct Ann Arbor concert series he ran with Marcin Bela.  He has received awards from ASCAP, BMI and the Bearns Prize, and was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. His large ensemble music is published by E.B. Marks.  His computer-controlled installations have appeared several times at the Burning Man festival - a source of deep inspiration for all his work.  Additionally, he has worked for several years and is writing a book with ethnomusicologist Judith Becker about the relation between ecstatic trance and physiological responses to emotionally moving music.  He also performs as a singer.  Joshua Penman has studied composition with Louis Andriessen, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, Karen Tanaka, John Halle, and Betsy Jolas.  He holds a BA in Music and Mathematics from Yale University, and an MM and DMA in composition from the University of Michigan.