Credit: Da Ping Luo
Joshua Rubin, clarinet, artistic director emeritus, Program Director of LUIGI
Joshua Nathan Rubin served as the Program Director and then Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble from 2011-2018, where he oversaw the creative direction of hundreds of concerts in the United States and abroad. As a clarinetist, the New York Times has praised him as, "incapable of playing an inexpressive note." His interest in electronic music has led him to work to make technologies easier to use for both composers and performers, and to build platforms for the collective management of ensembles. He has collaborated with the foremost composers and performers of our time, and this season is featured in performances on modern and on historical clarinets in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, Houston, Geneva, Bergen, and Berlin, at Carnegie Hall, and at the Ojai Music Festival. Rubin serves on the faculty of the College of Performing Arts at The New School, Ensemble Evolution, and soundSCAPE Festival in Switzerland, teaching clarinet and electronic music. Joshua holds degrees in Biology and Clarinet from Oberlin College and Conservatory, and a Master's degree from the Mannes School of Music. He maintains an artistic presence in New York and Los Angeles. joshuanrubin.com