JOSH TRENTADUE (b. 1994) is an artist whose compositions and arrangements have been performed in the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, and more. Many of these works have made appearances at The Midwest Clinic, the Cortona Sessions for New Music, CBDNA, NASA, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Michigan Music Conference, and PASIC. 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. 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, Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, the Columbia Summer Winds Outdoor Composition Contest, and the Dallas Winds Brass Fanfare Competition. Several of Trentadue’s arrangements have additionally been selected for JWPepper’s Editors’ Choice series.

Trentadue is also a Music Copyist & Engraver for Tiberio Music Design & Publishing and has assisted 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. He provided additional orchestrations and 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 current Production Editor for TUX People’s Music. He holds a Master of Music Degree in Composition, Screen Scoring from New York University, and a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition from Michigan State University.

Josh Trentadue

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