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Joshua Kohl is a composer and conductor and is the creative producer and co-founder of the Seattle based multi-art group Degenerate Art Ensemble. He has performed throughout the United States, and ten countries of Western and Eastern Europe. His work as a composer and creative producer has included co-creation of a major museum exhibition of at the Frye Art Museum in 2011, a 2012 commission by theater director Robert Wilson to create an interpretation of his and Phillip Glass' work Einstein On The Beach at the Baryshnikov Center in New York, a work for six voices and string quartet performed by Kronos Quartet in 2012 at their 40th anniversary concert in Seattle, a large scale site specific work commissioned by the Seattle Center Foundation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Seattle Worlds Fair. Kohl is also an orchestral conductor of the music of his peers. In February of 2012 he conducted the music of fellow DAE composer Jherek Bischoff with the Wordless Music Orchestra in New York at Lincoln Center with vocalists David Byrne and he is the conductor of Seattle composer Samantha Boshnack's B'shorkestra. His and DAE’s work Red Shoes was awarded a Music Theatre Now award from the International Theatre Institute in at the Swedish Bienalen in 2013. He was commissioned by the legendary Czech band Uz Jsme Doma to compose an evening length suite of orchestral music inspired by the group’s music which he conducted in Prague in December of 2016 with the Southern Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Skeleton Flower, his newest work with Degenerate Art Ensemble was presented at the Spotlight USA Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, had its full world premiere in Seattle in 2019, was featured at the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Mexico City in August of 2021, was presented at the Fragmented Form Festival at On The Boards in Seattle in 2022, and was presented at the Hans Christian Andersen Festival in Odense, Denmark in August. His collaboration with Haruko Crow Nishimura, Colorado Springs based sculptor Senga Nengudi, and New York based violinist Eddy Kwon on a mutli-disciplinary performance and installation was commissioned by Colorado College, the Find Art Center of Colorado Springs, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and the National Performance Network.