BIOGRAPHY

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Josh Trentadue’s music is defined by its skillfully-crafted orchestration, percussive & rhythmic drive, ethereal lyricism, harmonic resonance, emotional depth, and meditative ambience. 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 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’s influences & inspirations range everywhere from indie, jazz, and rock music to neoromantic, cinematic, and contemporary classical genres. Recently commissioned works include “Mitten State Postcards” (commissioned by Adam Graham), “The Eternal Present” (a wind ensemble arrangement of Isaac Mayhew’s first symphony, commissioned by Dr. Matthew Arau, the Lawrence University Symphonic Band, and a consortium of ensembles), and “Hilltop Run” (commissioned by Dr. Jason Noble, the New York University Wind Symphony, and a consortium of ensembles). As an arranger, Trentadue has regularly collaborated with composers including Kevin Day, Alan Theisen, Harrison J. Collins, and Isaac Mayhew.

Trentadue additionally enjoys an active career as an in-demand orchestrator, engraver, & music copyist, as well as a career in music publishing as the current Production Editor for TUX People’s Music. He is a co-orchestrator and the music copyist for Kevin Day and Tifara Brown’s opera Lalovavi, in collaboration with the Cincinnati Opera. 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, 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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Internationally acclaimed for his compositions & arrangements, Josh Trentadue’s music is defined by its skillfully-crafted orchestration, percussive & rhythmic drive, ethereal lyricism, harmonic resonance, emotional depth, and meditative ambience. His works are regularly commissioned by some of the finest ensembles & artists around the world and 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 International Trombone Festival, and PASIC. He has received awards, recognition, and honorable mentions from The American Prize, the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the Music Publishers Association of the United States, the Dallas Winds Brass Fanfare Competition, and more.

Trentadue additionally enjoys an active career as an in-demand orchestrator, engraver, & music copyist, as well as a career in music publishing as the current Production Editor for TUX People’s Music. He is a co-orchestrator and the music copyist for Kevin Day and Tifara Brown’s opera Lalovavi, in collaboration with the Cincinnati Opera, and 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, Paddington, and the Ron Howard/Jim Carrey adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas.