biography.Josh Trentadue’s music is defined by its skillfully-crafted orchestration, percussive & rhythmic drive, ethereal lyricism, harmonic resonance, emotional depth, and meditative ambience. His artistic influences & inspirations range everywhere from indie, jazz, and rock music to neoromantic, cinematic, and contemporary classical genres.
Internationally acclaimed for his compositions & arrangements, Trentadue’s works are regularly commissioned & performed in the United States of America, Japan, Canada, Australia, and more by some of the finest wind ensembles, orchestras, chamber ensembles, & artists around the world. His works have been performed at The Midwest Clinic, the American Bandmasters Association Convention, the Cortona Sessions for New Music, CBDNA, the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, the Western International Band Clinic, the International Trombone Festival, and PASIC. Trentadue has received awards, recognition, & honorable mentions from The American Prize, the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the Music Publishers Association of the United States, JWPepper Editor’s Choice, Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, the Dallas Winds Brass Fanfare Competition, and the Manhattan Summer Winds (formerly Columbia Summer Winds) Outdoor Composition Contest. Short films that Trentadue has scored have received screenings at the British Film Institute Future Film Festival, the TIDE Film Festival, the National Film Festival for Talented Youth, and the Asian Film Festival - Los Angeles. Trentadue additionally enjoys an active career as an in-demand orchestrator, engraver, & music copyist, as well as an active career in music publishing as the current Production Editor for TUX People’s Music. He made his opera debut as the co-orchestrator and copyist for Kevin Day & Tifara Brown’s opera "Lalovavi", commissioned by the Cincinnati Opera & the Mellon Foundation. He has assisted Tiberio Music Design & Publishing with live-to-film concert productions including "Cinema Paradiso", "The Goonies", "Get Happy: A Judy Garland Centennial Celebration", "Paddington", and the Ron Howard/Jim Carrey adaptation of "Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas". He also provided additional orchestrations & arrangements for "America’s Wonders", the world’s first 3D IMAX-style cinematic journey with live orchestra celebrating America’s most breathtaking national parks and cities. Trentadue holds degrees from New York University & Michigan State University. He studied composition with David Biedenbender & Jere Hutcheson, as well as film scoring with John Kaefer, Irwin Fisch, Ira Newborn, & Zhou Tian. |
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