Gilad Cohen is an active composer, performer, and theorist in various genres including concert music, rock, and music for theater. Highlighted engagements include commissions by Chamber Music America, Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, Concert Artists Guild, and ASCAP; performances by the Nash Ensemble of London, Israeli Chamber Project, Brentano Quartet, Mivos Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, and principal players of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Budapest Festival Orchestra; and releases on Albany Records, Naxos/Delos and Navona Records. Notable awards include the Barlow Prize, the Israeli Prime Minister Award for Composers, and top prizes in international competitions in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle-East. Gilad has performed with various ensembles around the US, playing piano, bass guitar and guitar. An Associate Professor of Music at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Gilad holds a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University. His research about the music of Pink Floyd has resulted in publications in academic journals, lectures in the US and Israel, and the first-ever academic conference devoted to the band that Gilad produced in 2014 at Princeton University together with composer Dave Molk. www.giladcohen.com