About

Originating as a punk/rock guitarist with no formal training in concert music, Carle Jordan Wirshba has invested much of his college career overcoming his sense of inadequacy in an artistic field that famously values prodigies and preschool piano lessons. Only beginning formal composition late in 2015, he has since fully indulged in his own compositional mind, creating hybrid species between punk-rock, experimental sound, neo-romanticism, and post-minimalism. The generative force behind his compositional process stems from this genre defiance, where connection to the music is more important than the title assigned to it.

Carle recently graduated from Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music, obtaining his Master of Music under Nicolas Scherzinger and Natalie Draper. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Binghamton University, where he studied composition under Daniel Thomas Davis and Gordon Beeferman, and a Bachelor of Science in Integrative Neuroscience with a Minor in Education. He has been commissioned by various individuals and organizations including Astral Artists, the American Guild of Organists, the Steven R. Gerber Trust, and guitarist Alex Lassa; and has had notable premiers by esteemed ensembles such as invoke, the Cassatt String Quartet, the Donald Sinta Quartet, Momenta Quartet, and Yarn/Wire. Most recently Carle was a resident assistant and composition fellow at the Brevard Music Center. He is currently Long-Island based and studying privately with Harold Meltzer.