Joseph Swensen

Joseph Swensen
Born1960 (age 65–66)
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
EraContemporary

Joseph Swensen (born 1960) is an American conductor, violinist, and composer. He is winner of awards, including the Leventritt Foundation Sponsorship Award and the Avery Fisher Career Award. In 2000, Swensen was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In 2014, he gave a TedX talk with the title “Habitats for Music and the Sound of Math” about music education and the developing brain, at the New York Institute of Technology.

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