Josh Modney

Josh Modney is a violinist and prominent interpreter of contemporary music, who has cultivated a holistic artistic practice as a composer, solo improviser, bandleader, writer, and collaborator. A highly detailed relationship to sound production on the violin is foundational to Modney’s creative practice, with a particular interest in complex timbres, Just Intonation, and in exploring the perceptual space between improvisation and notation. Modney’s recent album debut as a composer, Near To Each (Carrier Records), featuring music for quartet with Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone), Cory Smythe (piano), Mariel Roberts (cello), and Modney on violin, was lauded by KLANG as “wonderfully composed… remarkably performed…a quartet that is playing individually and collectively at the height of their powers.” Modney is the violinist and executive director of the composer-performer collective Wet Ink Ensemble and a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble.