Joseph Howard is a composer of vocal and ensemble works centred on layered voices and perception.

Featured Work

surface and sediment was developed as part of a collaboration with painter Gregory Howard. Painting and music both negotiate a tension between physical material and digital or artificial mediation, between gesture and object, and the spaces in-between.

In each surface, the music behaves as though continually emerging: gestures shift, blur, and curve, as though being touched or brushed into shape. more

Recent

Surface and Sediment EP Release

Surface and Sediment, a collaborative project with painter Gregory Howard, recorded by Richard Durrant, Lucía Polo Moreno and Hannah Shilvock.

Key Changes

Theme Music for Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music recorded by BBC NOW with Kerem Hasan.

Murder in the Cathedral

New soundtrack for BBC Radio 4 adaptation of TS Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, recorded by the BBC Singers with Sofi Jeannin and percussionist Louise Duggan.

Opium Songs

Opium Songs performed by Andrew Watts and Gavin Roberts at Wigmore Hall, including the premiere of Wax and Wail.

Classical:NEXT

Hey, Maudie presented at the Classical:NEXT 2025 conference in Berlin.

Britten Pears Residency

Hey, Maudie developed further during a residency at Britten Pears Arts.