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A founding director of Composers Concordance, Joseph Pehrson has for three decades worked on behalf the organization while pursuing his own varied and distinctive music. Originally from Detroit, Joe studied at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan (Doctor of Musical Arts 1981). Joe's teachers included composers Leslie Bassett, Joseph Schwantner, and, informally, Otto Luening and Elie Siegmeister in New York. Joe has written works for a wide variety of media which have been performed at numerous venues including Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Symphony Space in New York and throughout the United States, Eastern Europe and Russia. In 2008, he participated in a festival at the "House of Composers" in St. Petersburg. Linda Past-Pehrson danced to three electronic pieces in alternate tunings as part of this festival. In Moscow, Joe had five chamber pieces presented at the "Jurgenson Salon," and Linda Past-Pehrson danced to six electronic pieces in alternate tunings at the "Fireplace Hall" of the "Central Building for Workers of Art, (TsDRI)." In 2009 Italian trumpeter Ivano Ascari toured the U.S. with a piece that Joe composed for him. In 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 several chamber works were presented by the Composers Concordance, the New York Composers' Circle and Dan Barrett’s 'International Street Cannibals.' Pehrson has works recorded on Capstone and New Ariel CDs and several pieces are published by Seesaw Music, Corp., a division of Subito Music.
A founding director of Composers Concordance, Patrick Hardish has for three decades worked on behalf the organization while pursuing his own distinctive chamber music compositions. Patrick studied at Juilliard, CUNY-Queens College (BA), Bennington College, and Columbia University. Before becoming a composer, he played drums professionally for several years in dance bands, and to a lesser extent in musicals. Patrick also holds a MS degree in information science from the Pratt Institute. His music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Brazil and Japan. Commissions have come from the Composers Guild of New Jersey, Queens Philharmonia, Adolphe Saxquartette, and the North/South Consonance Ensemble, among others. Patrick's music is published by Calabrese Brothers Music and Deffner Publications, and recorded on Capstone Records (The Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo) and Finnadar (William Schimmel, accordion). His music can be heard on the soundtrack of the film 'Immortal Cupboard,' by Cathy Cook. Two new CDs to be released soon by Esther Lamneck, clarinet and The Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo will include two recent works of Patrick's. He has been in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, lectured and given presentations of his music at New York University and the Governor's School for the Gifted in Virginia, been guest composer at WNYC-FM, WKCR-FM Radio and Columbia University, received several awards from Meet The Composer, and been awarded the Margaret Fairbanks Jory Copying Assistance Program Award from the American Music Center. Patrick has contributed to Notes (of the Music Library Association) and the New Music Connoisseur magazine, where he serves on that magazine's Editorial Board. He recently retired from a job as a Senior Librarian with The New York Public Library.
