Joshua Hyde is a saxophonist, improviser & composer. Internationally recognised as a leading performer of new music he is co-artistic director and saxophonist of Parisian new music ensemble soundinitiative and half of scapegoat duo with Canadian percussionist Noam Bierstone. A member of Australia’s leading new music ensemble, Elision, he is also a regular guest with ensembles across Europe including Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Nadar & Ensemble Intercontemporain. Joshua’s discography includes releases on Kairos, Integrated Records, NMC, HCR, Wergo and Torpor Vigil, and collaborations with some of the world’s most notable composers have resulted in an extensive list of premieres. Equally at home as an improviser, his most recent solo release on Integrated Records, ‘Sol’, is a series of improvised reflections. Particularly interested in the creation of immersive performance contexts, his compositional work often incorporates his own video and visual art. In 2018 the New Thread Quartet premiered ‘Bring mir einen Engel zurück’ at the DiMenna Center in New York City, in 2017 part of the ‘Vertical Horizons’ series was premiered with the Son d’Ar-te Ensemble at the Casa da Musica in Porto, and in December 2019 violinist Emma Lloyd premiered ‘All we have is time’ for violin & electronics at Sonic Warehouse in Paris.