Joshua Cody is the artistic director of the Ensemble Sospeso.  A composer, his works have been performed in the United States, Europe, and Africa. He has studied at Northwestern University (Chicago) and privately in Paris with Alan Stout, C. P. First, Jay Alan Yim, and private master classes with Pierre Boulez and Louis Andriessen.

His radio program Music of this Century was broadcast in Chicago from 1993 to 1996.  Mr. Cody co-founded the international periodical The Paris New Music Review in 1995, and he co-founded the Ensemble Sospeso in 1995; the ensemble has been responsible for many US and world premieres of chamber works by American and European composers.  Mr. Cody is the author of many published articles on contemporary music, and also an accomplished visual artist and professional designer; his work has been exhibited internationally.  He is currently a Fellow of the Faculty of Columbia University and pursuing his master's degree in composition.