SACHS, JOEL Joel Sachs, piano/conductor
Joel Sachs, co-director, pianist, conductor, is on the faculty of the Juilliard
School, where he conducts the New Juilliard Ensemble, a chamber orchestra for
new music, and directs the annual Focus! festival of new music. He has also
been Artistic Director of the Museum of Modern Art's Summergarden festival.
His international appearances include orchestra concerts in Germany, Iceland,
Mexico, Switzerland, Ukraine, and El Salvador, and residencies in Brazil, Israel,
Poland, and Russia. He received Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Award
to a conductor for service to American music. He is writing a biography of Henry
Cowell, to be published by Oxford University Press.
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