About

“Music Director Joshua Anand Slater led the singers and musicians through both operas’ challenging scores with energy, expertise, and sensitivity.” - Opera Canada, August 2022

Joshua Anand Slater is an Indian-American conductor and composer, known equally for his work in new music and for “rich, full-throated” interpretations of established repertoire.

A long-term advocate for other visible minority artists, and a believer in the value of learning and participation in classical music and the choral tradition for visible minority communities, Joshua regularly leads Loose Tea Music Theatre’s BIPOC Composer-Librettist Development Program. Joshua is the Founding Artistic Director of fujit productions (founded 2009), a concert organisation committed to promoting underrepresented and silenced voices.

In his work as part of Trinity Wall Street’s “indispensable and unmissable” classical concert series (The New York Times) as a programmer, manager, and conductor. Joshua co-produced the recording of the Pulitzer-winning opera Angel’s Bone, along with the Grammy-nominated recording of Glass’s Symphony No. 5. He has expanded, reformed, and founded community choir and chorister programs in Connecticut, New York and Boston. He’s served on the faculties of St. Paul's Choir School, Cambridge, MA and The Sparhawk School, Amesbury, MA.

A Colleague of the American Guild of Organists, Joshua revitalised and relaunched the music program at St. Paul’s Bloor Street, the largest Anglican church in Canada. Mr. Slater is an active recitalist, a piano student of Virginia Eskin, a former conducting student of Julian Wachner and an active organ student of Frederick MacArthur and David Enlow.

Joshua is an active orchestrator and arranger for numerous contemporary American composers, and has revised and orchestrated works for composers associated with G. Schirmer, ECS, Beth Morrison Projects and numerous others.

An active scholar and writer, Mr. Slater served as Trinity’s principal program annotator, and has been commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Washington Chorus as well as several recitalists and smaller organisations. Samples of his work are available at pnfte.wordpress.com, and the New York Times certainly enjoyed his synopsis of Händel’s Jephtha.

Mr. Slater has been recently mentioned in the Indian, Canadian, and American press for various performances.