Joshua Mallard
- Adjunct Lecturer, Music Composition
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Music Composition
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Game Audio
- Email jsm6165@psu.edu
- Pronouns He/Him
Biography
Joshua Mallard (b. 1998) is an award-winning composer currently residing in Phoenix, Arizona. Mallard's eclectic body of work seeks to reshape musical idioms and embrace experimentation. Mallard is a prolific composer for non-linear media. This includes contributing music or sound to video games such as the Netflix Games title Rebel Moon: Bloodline, Sirocco, TMNT: Splintered Fate, Beyond Blue: After The Storm, and more.
Mallard's works have been performed internationally by a variety of ensembles, including HyperCube and Rote Hund Muzik. His flute work Perennial was programmed on Fear No Music’s 2020-21 concert series, “Tomorrow Is My Turn”. Mallard was commissioned to write a new work for Willamette University's "Artist As Advocate" workshop. Recently, Mallard’s string quartet State Machine (performed by Mivos Quartet) was selected as a winner of Score Follower FMS24.
Additionally, Mallard is prolific speaker and has given lectures on both video game music and his work in classical music at universities such as the Eastman School of Music, Linfield University, and more. Mallard has also discussed game audio in panels at events such as PAX West. Recently, Mallard discussed his career in game audio on music/Maker with Tyler Kline.
Mallard holds an MM in composition from Penn State University and is an adjunct lecturer of Game Audio there.