Joseph Landers

Joseph Landers studied at the University of Alabama, the University of Toronto, and the University of Cambridge. He has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Foundation, the Tanglewood Music Center, the American Music Center, and MacDowell. His orchestral work, Karangan, was selected as a finalist for the 1999 Alexander Zemlinsky International Prize for Composition. In 2000, he was awarded the Thor Johnson Memorial Commission for his Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, and, in 2008, he was awarded an individual artist fellowship by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. In 1997, his orchestral work, Nine forty-eight, was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Gaudeamus Prize of Holland. His compositions have been featured in concert series and festivals all over the world and Landers himself, has appeared as guest conductor in the performance of several of his orchestra works. He has served on the music faculties at the University of Alabama and the University of Mississippi and is currently the Todd and Linda Strange Endowed Professor of Music at the University of Montevallo (in Alabama).