• UNF Wind Symphony to Perform Trial by Fire at FMEA

    Congratulations to the UNF Wind Symphony and Dr. Erin Bodnar for being selected to perform at the 2025 Florida Music Educators Association Conference in Tampa! Join us for the performance on Thursday January 9 at 9:15 pm in the Tampa Marriot Water Street Grand Ballroom. The UNF Wind Symphony will be joined by Dr. Andrea Venet for a performance of her percussion concerto, This Prismasonic Rock I Stand. Also featured on the performance is Dr. Josh Tomlinson's Trial by Fire, for wind ensemble and e…

  • Tuba & Euphonium Ensemble Premier "Peace & Plenty"

    Dr. Mark Dickman commissioned Joshua Tomlinson to compose a work for the UNF Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble to be premiered at a conference in Tennessee in May. As a warm up, the ensemble played their conference program for a local audience in Jacksonville May 8.

  • Convergence festival at De Montfort University features A Short Story

    The Convergence festival of music technology at De Montfort University (Leicester, England) hosted a three day event that included a performance of Joshua Tomlinson's "A Short Story" September 22, 2022. Dr. Tomlinson's theater piece features live electronics triggered by a typewriter and lamp to drive the narrative of an old writer recounting his past. As the only artist performing on typewriter that evening, Dr. Tomlinson answered audience questions after the concert about the technology he us…

  • jemFEST receives Eisen Experiential Learning Award

    The Jacksonville Electroacoustic Music Festival (jemFEST) has been honored as the recipient of the 2022 Eisen Experiential Learning Award. The financial award will make it possible for the event to host Grammy-award winning cellist Nick Photinos as guest artist and lecturer for the 2023 festival. Joshua Tomlinson founded jemFEST in 2021 to give the electroacoustic community a port in northeast Florida and to give his students and the local community an opportunity to engage with new music from …

  • NuMIX ensemble brings Trial by Fire to CBDNA

    From Jacksonville, Florida the UNF NuMIX ensemble will perform Joshua Tomlinson's Trial By Fire at the CBDNA Southern Division Conference in Columbia, South Carolina this Friday. The broad dynamic three movement work was composed by Joshua Tomlinson for wind symphony and live electronics, and this performance will debut a simplified score for the smaller ensemble. Dr. Tomlinson traveled to South Carolina with the ensemble to perform the integrated electronics.