Jessie Cox

Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from Columbia University, New York. Active as a composer, drummer, and scholar, his work thematizes questions at the intersection of Black studies, music and sound studies, and critical theory. Cox has worked as a composer and drummer with ensembles and institutions such as the Sun Ra Arkestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Klangforum Wien, Vienna, and at festivals such as Lucerne Festival; MaerzMusik, Berlin; and Opera Omaha, Nebraska. His monograph Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices will be published in 2025. Cox lives and works in Boston.