Dr. Joshua Fishbein composes and conducts choral music. He has won the Chorus America/American Composers Forum Dale Warland Singers Commission Award, the ACDA Brock Memorial Student Composition Competition, and The American Prize in Composition, as well as numerous other honors from organizations such as BMI, the Guild of Temple Musicians, the National Lutheran Choir, the Cantate Chamber Singers, The Esoterics, and the Delaware Valley Chorale. Professional vocal ensembles, such as Cantus, Chicago a cappella, The Thirteen, Volti, and Washington Master Chorale, have premiered his music. Steeped in Jewish music, Dr. Fishbein has composed numerous Jewish and interfaith pieces for chorus and solo voice. His music is published by E.C. Schirmer Music Company, Hal Leonard Corporation, Transcontinental Music Publications, and Yelton Rhodes Music. Fishbein has taught at The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Towson University, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, The College of New Jersey, and University of Nevada Las Vegas. He currently directs choirs at Saint George’s Episcopal Church in Glenn Dale, Maryland, and Chizuk Amuno Congregation of Baltimore. He holds doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees in music from the University of California Los Angeles, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Carnegie Mellon University, respectively.