Joseph Bourdeau is a composer, educator and performer currently living in San Diego, California. Influenced by diverse artistic interests, his work blends music, humor and theater, while often manipulating familiar sounds and situations in the pursuit of surreal new experiences.

Joseph has worked in mediums ranging from notated concert music to free improvisation, and various kinds of electroacoustic, popular, and theatrical music. His concert work has been presented across the U.S and abroad, with performances in Greece, Italy, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates. In 2018 he wrote, recorded and mixed songs for a production of Bertolt Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children at the Mandell Weiss Theatre in la Jolla, and in 2019 premiered his own short monodrama Songs from Patmos: Music for the End of the World.

An active performer, Joseph has given workshops and performances internationally. He recently premiered his evening-length multimedia work i don’t remember falling asleep in La Jolla, and presented a workshop on improvising with found objects at Neofonía: Festival de Música Nueva, in Ensenada. Joseph appears as a percussionist on several recordings with the University of South Florida Percussion Group, and is currently working towards releasing an album of electroacoustic music with trombonist Berk Schneider, and electronic musician Douglas Osmun.

Joseph holds bachelor’s degrees in music education and composition from the University of South Florida, and a master’s in composition from UC San Diego, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D.