✦ Aryaman Manish Joshi ✦
Aryaman Joshi (b. 2001) is a composer from India, currently based in Minnesota, USA.
He is well known for his catchy melodies, and culturally diverse compositions. Check out his
music on his Compositions Page
He graduated from St. Olaf College in 2023 with a B.A. in Music Composition and
Mathematics with a Data Science Minor. During his time at St. Olaf, he played in many
ensembles and widened his horizon of music. He played Piano and Contrabass Clarinet in the
St. Olaf Band and Norseman Band, Alto and Bass Recorder in Collegium Musicum, Alto Saxophone in
the Improvisation Ensemble, Accordion and Clarinet in Global Improvisation ensemble,
sang Baritone in the Viking Chorus and Chapel Choir, was the president of the St. Olaf Taiko Club,
and took lessons in Oboe and Hardanger Fiddle. He continues to play Hardanger Fiddle in the
Twin Cities Hardingfelelag.
✦ Featured Works ✦
कालचक्र The Wheel of Time - A powerful piece for concert band
A multi-instrumentalist, Aryaman is known for his very idiomatic and well researched writing for a wide variety of instruments,
one can often hear fresh yet approachable sounds from any instrument he writes for. He enjoys
working closely with performers and gives high importance to the enjoyment and the intentions of
his collaborators.
Aryaman also composes Microtonal or Xenharmonic music. He uses his mathematical
background to explore and compose for alternate tuning systems. His fascination for
xenharmony can be heard even in regular instrumental works, his aim is to make xenharmony seem
normal and approachable. He explores Xenharmonic possibilities on the Lumatone
and uploads Xenharmonic covers
on his YouTube channel.
Besides music, Aryaman enjoys a wide range of hobbies and puts great importance on them.
He loves learning languages and knows Hindi, English, Urdu, and Japanese. He is self taught in
Urdu and Japanese and is currently working on his 5th language, Spanish.
He also loves reading and writing poetry, practicing Arabic calligraphy and yoga, cooking and
exploring new dishes, and fishkeeping.
In parallel with music, Aryaman is trying his hand at working in the field of Software and Data Science.
He loves programming and coded this website by himself from scratch using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.