Louis J. Goldford
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Associations
Music
Olin Arts Center,
About
Louis GOLDFORD is a composer of instrumental and mixed music. His works are characterized by processes of emergence and approximation, interwoven psychoanalytic and existential formal models, and traversals of abstract resonances and virtual spaces which, at times, have involved data sonification and experimental approaches to orchestration. Louis is the recipient of a Fromm Commission from Harvard University and a Salvatore Martirano Award. Louis was awarded the ACTOR Project Research-Creation Grant along with a cohort of music perception scholars in Montréal. In 2019, Louis completed his Cursus at IRCAM, supported by the Fulbright Commission in France. Louis has been a Laureate of the Voix Nouvelles of Fondation Royaumont and a Laureate and resident composer of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Recent performances include those by the Wavefield Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Linea, Wet Ink, the Talea Ensemble, Longleash, Yarn/Wire, Ensemble Pi, Fonema Consort, the JACK Quartet, and Ensemble Dal Niente, among others.
Louis holds a D.M.A. from Columbia University, where he studied with Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, Zosha Di Castri, Brad Garton, and Fred Lerdahl.