Joseph Trapanese Lecturer--Electronic Music & Composition Telephone:  (310) 825-4761 E-mail: jtrapanese@gmail.com Office: 2539

Hailed by the New York Times as “precise and evocative,” the music of JOSEPH TRAPANESE is heard in feature films, network and cable television as well as in productions at NYU, UCLA, on NPR, and several off-broadway productions in New York City.  It has been performed by three GRAMMY-winning artists and awarded by ASCAP, the American Music Center, Yale University, UCLA, the Henry Mancini Institute and Downbeat Magazine.  

Winner of the first annual Jerry Goldsmith Award in 2007, Joseph’s recent film work includes numerous shorts and additional music for the independent features NECESSARY EVIL and THE LAST WORD, as well as orchestrations for WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, TRAITOR, the Emmy-nominated Lifetime feature THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER, BEETHOVEN'S BIG BREAK, and Nickelodeon’s first prime time family movie GYM TEACHER.  As an arranger and music programmer he has contributed to the Fox sitcom THE LOOP, the ABC reality series AMERICAN INVENTOR, and Disney’s original movie sensation JUMP IN.  His work as a music production assistant includes FRED CLAUS for Warner Brothers, RENDITION for New Line Cinema, and CASHMERE MAFIA for ABC.

Joseph completed his B.M. in Music Composition at the Manhattan School of Music and his M.A. at UCLA as the first graduate of the Composition for Visual Media program, where his studies not only included film scoring, but also film production classes at the UCLA Department of Theater, Film and Television. Teachers include Giampaolo Bracali, Paul Chihara, Roger Bourland, and Martin Bresnick.