Joey O’Neill (he/him)

Composer-Mentor

Joey O’Neill (b. 2003, San Francisco) is a composer, flutist, and pianist studying at Columbia University. His compositions have been performed by groups such as Yarn/Wire, Decoda, Bergamot Quartet, Telegraph Quartet, PinkNoise, W4RP, and Platypus Ensemble; at venues such as The DiMenna Center, Tanglewood, Colby College, Symphony Space, and MDW Vienna; and have been recognized through the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards.

He has studied composition at highSCORE, Emerging Composers Intensive, New Music On The Point, Sounds of Now Vienna, BU Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artists Composition Program, and the Atlantic Music Festival; conducting at Curtis’s Young Artist Summer Program and Eastman’s Summer Classical Studies; and flute at Brevard and Interlochen.

At Columbia, he sound designs for theatre and film and plays flute and piano in the Columbia University Orchestra, in chamber groups, and for musicals. Additionally, he has interned at the Ojai Music Festival and at Music Will. He was previously a flutist in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and graduated with honors from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College.

FUN FACT: Joey can play four different instruments.