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.
