Joseph Di Ponio has composed music for concert performance, theater, art
installations, and silent films. His concert music can be heard on solo and
chamber music recitals throughout the U.S. and Canada, and is often inspired
by the visual arts, especially the paintings of Barnett Newman, the video
installations of Gary Hill, and the sculptures of Richard Serra. In general,
his work is concerned with issues of aural history and temporality and is
influenced greatly by contemporary thought on time and being.

Based in New York City, Joseph was recently awarded a residency by
New York Performing Arts Spaces to produce works for Lost Dog New Music (mixed
ensemble), solo piano and electronics, as well as tenor, flute and electronics. His past
projects include compositions for the Timetable Percussion, Yarn/Wire, the violinist Jubal
Fulks, and the 2009 Armory show (NYC).

Joseph holds degrees from Western Michigan University (B.Mus.), the
Hartt School - University of Hartford (MM), and completed his PhD in music composition at
SUNY Stony Brook where he studied with Dan Weymouth, Daria Semegen and
Sheila Silver. While at Stony Brook, he studied philosophy and aesthetics
with Hugh Silverman and Donald Kuspit earning an Advanced Graduate
Certificate in Philosophy and the Arts. Increasingly active as an art
theorist, he has presented papers on the aesthetic relationship between
music and the other arts throughout the US and Europe at conferences such as
UCLA’s ECHO Conference, the 2009 Music and Minimalism Conference and the
2006 convention of the International Association for Philosophy and
Literature (IAPL).