Lansing McLoskey has been described as "a major talent and a deep thinker with a great ear" by the American Composers Orchestra, "an engaging, gifted composer...writing smart, compelling and fascinating music that gives strong hints of a punk-band past" by Gramophone Magazine, and "a distinctive voice in present day American music."  McLoskey’s music has been performed to critical acclaim in 21 countries on six continents, and has won more than two dozen national and international awards, including The 2016 American Prize, 2018 Aaron Copland House Award and commission, the 2016 Robert Avalon International Composition Competition, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Most recently he won the 2018 Boston Choral Ensemble’s Composition Competition, and was named a 2019 Bogliasco Foundation Fellow. In 2009 he became the only composer in the 53 year history of the ISU New Music Festival to win both the chamber music and orchestral composition awards; both blind-juried national competitions with two independent panels. 

McLoskey has been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, NEA, Barlow Endowment, Meet The Composer, Pew Charitable Trusts, the International Joint Wind Quintet Project, and numerous ensembles. Recent commissions include a Barlow Commission for an 80-minute oratorio for The Crossing; a full-length opera for Guerilla Opera (Boston) for 2019/20; ensemberlino vocale (Berlin); Kammerkoret NOVA (Oslo, Norway); New Spectrum Foundation for violinist Miranda Cuckson; Berlin PianoPercussion; and Passepartout Duo (Berlin). McLoskey has received commissions from Meet The Composer, National Endowment for the Arts, the Barlow Endowment, Pew Charitable Trusts, the Fromm Foundation, and SCI/ASCAP, among many others. Recent performances include at The 2017 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), 2018 Dark Music Days Festival (Iceland), the 2018 Festival de Musica Contemporànea Habana (Cuba), the Alba Music Festival (Italy), the 2018 Contrasti Festival (Trento, Italy), the 2018 International Clarinet Conference (Belgium), and the premiere of a new piano work at Carnegie Hall in June of 2018.

McLoskey completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University, with additional studies at UC Santa Barbara, the USC Thornton School of Music, and the Royal Danish Academy of Music.  Full Professor at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, he has lectured and given Masterclasses at over 30 schools and festivals, including Aspen, the Tanglewood Institute, Universität der Künste Berlin, Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico) and two dozen universities. He has also served as Composer-in-Residence at the soundSCAPE Festival (Italy), the Alba Music Festival (Italy), and half-a-dozen festivals in the United States. His music is released on Albany, WergoSchallplatten, Capstone, Innova, Tantara, Equilibrium/Soundset, and Beauport Classics, and available from Subito Music, Mostly Marimba, American Composers Press, and Odhecaton Z Music.
He is an avid surfer, cyclist, and skateboarder.
www.lansingmcloskey.com