BIO

Composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Bozich seeks to build shared musical experiences that connect audiences to the vast inner universe of western classical music. In June 2025, Bozich received the prize for “Best Performance of a Work by Khachaturian” at the Khachaturian International Conducting Competition with the Armenian State Symphony. Additionally, in 2023, he finished in the top-10 of the the Lovro von Matacic Conducting Compeition. Bozich made his debut with the Tonkünstler Orchestra conducting his own composition as part of the Ink Still Wet workshop at the Grafenegg Festival. In the opera world, he has served as an assistant conductor to the Hungarian State Opera, Juilliard Opera, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, and Opera Neo (San Diego). He has also appeared as a guest conductor with the HUST Symphony Orchestra (Wuhan, China) and Octava Chamber Orchestra (Seattle, WA). In April 2025, Bozich led students at the New England Conservatory in the American Premiere of Jean Sibelius’ opera, Jungfrun i tornet, as part of NEC’s faculty recital series. Bozich made his Boston Symphony Hall debut in 2022 when he stepped in at the last minute to lead a full production of La traviata with professional soloists and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2023 he was a conducting fellow at Aspen Music Festival, where he worked with Robert Spano, Mark Stringer, and Patrick Summers. Other conducting mentors include Brad Lubman and Gerard Schwarz.

Equally gifted as a composer, Bozich’s works seek to balance kinetic musical geometries, operatic intensity, and introspective spirituality. He was one of five participants selected by Phillipe Manoury to compose a work for the Tonkünstler Orchestra as part of the Ink Still Wet Workshop in 2023, with whom he conducted the work. His saxophone quartet work Babel won the 2014 Sinta Quartet commissioning competition and can be heard on the group’s debut album, Collider. Other commissioners include Kenneth Radnofsky, Latitude 49, and the Departure Duo.

Bozich holds a Masters of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Kenneth Kiesler, and a Bachelors in Music Education from the University of Puget Sound. In addition to his guest conducting and composition calendar, Bozich is Artistic Advisor/Associate Conductor for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and beginning Fall of 2025 studies in the Graduate Diploma program of the New England Conservatory with Stefan Asbury.