Filipino composer/scholar Paul Cosme blends and breaks boundaries in his constant search for home. He combines media, forms, and sound worlds from Asian and Western traditions in collaboration with Classical, pop & rock, jazz, and traditional artists including the GRAMMY-winning New Jersey Symphony, GRAMMY-nominated JACK Quartet, Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacón, taiko master Kenny Endo, shakuhachi player Christopher Blasdel, kulintang player Ronald “kulintronica” Querian, sheng performer Loo Sze Wang, koto player Maruta Miki, geomungo player Ik-Soo Heo, pianist Angela Kim, violinist Ignace Jang, lawyer-activist and visual artist Mari Matsuda, members of the Hawaiʻi Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras, Gugak musicians from Seoul National University, and artists he considers his friends.

His works gained recognition at home and abroad with institutions like the American Choral Directors Association, Edward T. Cone Institute at Princeton University, Beth Morrison Projects in New York, Asian Composers League, and Philippine National Commission on Culture and the Arts. His current major projects include a Kennedy Theater production of David Saar’s The Yellow Boat reimagined towards Philippine aesthetics with Cebuano director Emmanuel Mante.

Cosme pursues a PhD in Composition at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, was a Graduate Degree Fellow at the East-West Center, and recipient of the John C. Young Award for Arts and Letters. He researches constructions of the Philippines through contemporary and popular music which are published and presented in journals and international conferences. His teachers include Randy Bauer, Victoria Malawey, Donald Reid Womack, Takuma Itoh, and Thomas Osborne.