Joshua Hyde is a saxophonist, improviser & composer.
Internationally recognised as a leading performer of new music he is a founding member, saxophonist and co-artistic director from 2011 - 2021 of Parisian new music ensemble soundinitiative and half of augmented duo scapegoat with Canadian percussionist Noam Bierstone.
A member of Australia’s leading new music ensemble, Elision since 2016, he is also a regular guest with ensembles across Europe including Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Nadar & Ensemble Intercontemporain.
In 2011 Joshua won first prize and audience prize at the 3rd International Jean-Marie Londeix Saxophone Competition, and in 2014 was awarded a Kranichsteiner Musik Preis at the Darmstadter Ferienkurse.
Previously holding teaching positions at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Vienna University of Music and Performing arts, since 2020 Joshua is professor of saxophone & contemporary chamber music at the Geneva University of Music (Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève).
A graduate of the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) in saxophone, chamber music and improvisation his saxophone teachers include Claude Delangle, Vincent David, Marie-Bernadette Charrier, Barry Cockroft & Ian Godfrey. Improvisation mentors have included Vincent LeQuang, Alexandros Markeas, Evan Parker and Rob Vincs, compositional guidance has come from Damien Ricketson, Pierluigi Billone, and Steven Takesugi, and he studied piano in Paris with Françoise Buffet-Arsenijevic. Joshua holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in composition from the Sydney Conservatorium under the supervision of Damien Ricketson & Michael Duke.