BIOGRAPHY
JOSH TRENTADUE (b. 1994) is a composer & arranger whose music is defined by its skillfully-crafted orchestration, percussive & rhythmic drive, emotionally ethereal lyricism, harmonic resonance, and meditative ambience. Trentadue’s influences & inspirations range everywhere from indie, jazz, and rock music to neoromantic, cinematic, and contemporary classical genres.
Trentadue’s compositions & arrangements have been regularly commissioned & performed in the United States of America, Japan, Canada, Australia, and more. Many of these works have also been performed at The Midwest Clinic, the American Bandmasters Association Convention, the Cortona Sessions for New Music, CBDNA, the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, PASIC, and more. He has collaborated on new arrangements with composers including Kevin Day, Alan Theisen, Harrison J. Collins, Isaac Mayhew, and Jason Taurins. Upcoming performances include the International Trombone Festival in July 2025, featuring his recently-commissioned bass trombone & piano sonata “Mitten State Postcards” performed by Adam Graham. Recent collaborations include an arrangement of Isaac Mayhew’s symphony “The Eternal Present” (commissioned by Dr. Matthew Arau, the Lawrence University Symphonic Band, and a consortium of ensembles, premiered as part of the 150th Anniversary of the Lawrence University Conservatory School of Music) and “Hilltop Run” (commissioned by Dr. Jason Noble and the New York University Wind Symphony as part of a larger consortium for new wind ensemble music inspired by video games).
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, Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, the Dallas Winds Brass Fanfare Competition, and the Manhattan Summer Winds (formerly Columbia Summer Winds) Outdoor Composition Contest. Several of Trentadue’s arrangements have been selected for JWPepper’s Editors’ Choice series. 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 orchestrator, engraver, & music copyist. He has assisted Tiberio Music Design & Publishing with preparations for live-to-film music concerts including Cinema Paradiso, The Goonies, Get Happy: A Judy Garland Centennial Celebration, and Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey. He 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 is the Production Editor for the publishing company TUX People’s Music. He holds a Master of Music Degree in Composition, Screen Scoring from New York University (where he studied with John Kaefer, Irwin Fisch, and Ira Newborn), and a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition from Michigan State University (where he studied composition with David Biedenbender & Jere Hutcheson and screen scoring with Zhou Tian).
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JOSH TRENTADUE (b. 1994) is a composer & arranger whose music is defined by its skillfully-crafted orchestration, percussive & rhythmic drive, emotionally ethereal lyricism, harmonic resonance, and meditative ambience. Trentadue’s influences & inspirations range everywhere from indie, jazz, and rock music to neoromantic, cinematic, and contemporary classical genres.
Trentadue’s compositions & arrangements, and short films he has scored, have been regularly commissioned & performed at conferences & festivals across the globe. He is the recipient of numerous awards, recognitions, & honorable mentions including The American Prize, the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the Music Publishers Association Paul Revere Award for Graphic Excellence, and the Dallas Winds Brass Fanfare Competition. He has collaborated on arrangements with composers including Kevin Day, Alan Theisen, Harrison J. Collins, Isaac Mayhew, and Jason Taurins.
Trentadue additionally enjoys an active career as an orchestrator, engraver, & music copyist, assisting Tiberio Music Design & Publishing with preparations for live-to-film music concerts as well as working in the music publishing industry as the Production Editor for TUX People’s Music. He holds a Master of Music Degree in Composition, Screen Scoring from New York University (where he studied with John Kaefer, Irwin Fisch, and Ira Newborn), and a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition from Michigan State University (where he studied composition with David Biedenbender & Jere Hutcheson and screen scoring with Zhou Tian).