Joseph Horowitz
Professional affiliation
Full Biography
Joseph Horowitz is a music historian and the Executive Director of the PostClassical Ensemble. He has long been a pioneer in classical music programming, beginning with his tenure as Artistic Advisor for the annual Schubertiade at the 92nd Street Y. As Executive Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, resident orchestra of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, he received national attention in the 1990s for 鈥淭he Russian Stravinsky,鈥 鈥淎merican Transcendentalists,鈥 鈥淔lamenco,鈥 and other festivals exploring the folk roots of concert works. Over the past three decades, Horowitz has created more than 100 interdisciplinary music festivals 鈥攊ncluding the annual American Composers Festival presented by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.
Called 鈥渁 force in classical music today, a prophet and an agitator鈥 by the New York Times, and 鈥渙ur nation鈥檚 leading scholar of the symphony orchestra鈥 by Charles Olton, former President of the League of American Orchestras, Horowitz is also the award-winning author of ten books mainly dealing with the institutional history of classical music in the United States. Both his Classical Music in America: A History (2005) and Artists in Exile: How Refugees from 20th Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts (2008) were named best books of the year by The Economist. As Project Director of an NEH National Education Project, as well as an NEH Teacher Training Institute, he is the author of a book for young readers entitled Dvo艡谩k in America, linked to a state-of-the-art DVD.
