music.wikisort.org - Composer

Joseph Trapanese (born 1984) is an American composer, arranger, and producer. He works in the production of music for films, television, records, theater, concerts, and interactive media.

Joseph Trapanese
Trapanese conducting his score for Disney's Lady and the Tramp at Sony's Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage
Background information
Born	1984 (age 37–38)
Origin	New Jersey, United States
Genres	Film score, jazz, electronic, ambient, chiptune
Occupation(s)	Film composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor
Instrument(s)	Piano, keyboards, synthesizer, trombone
Years active	2006–present
Website	www.joecomposer.com

Early life and education

Raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, Trapanese attended Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School before moving on to the Manhattan School of Music.[1]

Film and television music

Early career

Trapanese began his composing career by collaborating with Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) on the soundtrack for the Walt Disney Pictures film Tron: Legacy. His arrangements for the soundtrack have been described as "resolutely grand"[2] and "stirring... ominous, hypnotic".[3] The BBC described the work as "a sophisticated integration of acoustic and electronic instrumentation... majestic… rich, solemn tones… saturnine orchestration and a muscular rhythm”.[4]

2011–present

Trapanese has gone on to compose numerous projects including Disney XD's animated series Tron: Uprising,[5] Sony Pictures Classics' The Raid: Redemption (co-composed with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park), Sony Pictures Television's original web series The Bannen Way, the independent feature Mamitas (featured at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival),[6] and numerous scores for live action and animated films from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television. Trapanese contributed musical arrangements to Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, What Happens in Vegas and Traitor. Alongside composer Daniel Licht, Trapanese produced and orchestrated the scores for seasons 3 and 4 of Showtime's original series Dexter, and provided orchestrations for seasons 5 and 6. The 2012 teaser trailer for Iron Man 3 features Trapanese's composition Something to Fight For.[7][8]

His career eventually lead to working on major studio feature films working solo and alongside recording artists. Some of his well known credits include Universal Studios's Straight Outta Compton,[9] Lionsgate Films's The Divergent Series: Insurgent,[10] Sony Pictures Classics' The Raid 2,[11] and Universal Studios's Oblivion (co-composed with Anthony Gonzalez of M83).[12]

In 2017 he scored the Sony Pictures feature Only the Brave, his third collaboration with director Joseph Kosinski, and co-scored the 20th Century Fox musical The Greatest Showman alongside composer John Debney. On that film he produced several of the chart-topping songs from the film written by Oscar-winning duo Justin Paul and Benj Pasek.[13]

Music collaboration with artists

Following his collaborations with Daft Punk on Tron: Legacy, Anthony Gonzalez (M83) on Oblivion, and Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) on The Raid: Redemption, Trapanese continues to work with artists in film scoring, album production, and live events.

On August 7, 2015 Dr. Dre released his long-awaited third album Compton which featured string arrangements by Trapanese and Jennifer Hammond. They were conducted by Trapanese at the Straight Outta Compton scoring sessions at the Sony Pictures Studios scoring stage in Culver City.

On February 27, 2015 Kelly Clarkson released her seventh album Piece by Piece which featured an orchestra arranged and conducted by Trapanese recorded at EastWest Studios in Hollywood. He collaborated with producers Greg Kurstin, Jesse Shatkin, and Jason Halbert on the project.

On September 22, 2013, Trapanese performed with M83 at the Hollywood Bowl as conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.[14] For the concert, Trapanese arranged new orchestral material for songs from Before The Dawn Heals Us, Saturdays=Youth, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, and Oblivion. He also arranged and conducted an orchestra for M83's show at Central Park Summerstage in New York City on August 8, 2012.[15]

Released on October 25, 2013, by RCA Records, Kelly Clarkson's Wrapped in Red features an orchestra arranged and conducted by Trapanese.[16] Produced by Greg Kurstin, it is Clarkson's first Christmas-themed release, featuring cover versions of various Christmas standards in addition to original material. As part of the album's promotion, on October 30, 2013, Trapanese led the orchestra for Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale at The Venetian Las Vegas, which was broadcast on NBC on December 11, 2013.

Trapanese collaborated with Active Child on the arrangement of "Silhouette" (featuring Ellie Goulding) for his 2013 EP Rapor. In addition to the album, he provided new string and choir arrangements for his performances in Melbourne, London, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.[17]

For 2012's The Bourne Legacy, Trapanese worked with Moby on a new orchestral version of his "Extreme Ways".[18]

On October 18, 2011, M83's double-disc album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming released with five tracks arranged by Trapanese. Trapanese's work can be heard on "Intro", "Wait", "Soon, My Friend", "My Tears Are Becoming a Sea", and "Outro".[19]

Trapanese co-wrote and co-produced the song "Do or Die" with 3OH!3 from their album Omens.[20]

Music for live theater

The music Trapanese has produced for theater is performed primarily in New York City, most notably in productions by The Actors Company Theatre. Recent productions that he has provided music for include T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, Václav Havel's The Memorandum, and Edward Bond's The Sea. His music for the production of Milan Stitt's The Runner Stumbles was described by the New York Times as "Precise and evocative... wistful, ringing melodies”.[21]

Awards and honors

• In 2012, Joseph was nominated for an IFMCA Award for 'Breakthrough Film Composer of the Year' by the International Film Music Critics Association[22]
• In 2013, Joseph was nominated for Discovery of the Year for Oblivion at the World Soundtrack Academy Awards in Ghent, Belgium.[23]
• In 2013, Joseph was nominated for the ASCAP Composers’ Choice Award for the movie Oblivion.[24]
• In 2015, Joseph was nominated for Best Original Song Written for a Film from Insurgent for the song "Carry Me Home" at the World Soundtrack Academy Awards [25]
• In 2015, Joseph won the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Score for the film Straight Outta Compton.[26]
• In 2018, Joseph was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Music for The Greatest Showman (shared with John Debney)[27]

Education

Trapanese completed his bachelor's degree in composition at the Manhattan School of Music, and later an M.A. in Music for Visual Media at UCLA, with support from the Henry Mancini fund. Joseph's tutors included Giampaolo Bracali, Bruce Broughton, Paul Chihara, Roger Bourland, Jack Smalley, and Martin Bresnick, and he also engaged in brief studies with Louis Andriessen, Aaron Jay Kernis, Julia Wolfe, Mark Snow, and Ira Newborn. From 2008 to 2011, Trapanese taught the Electronic Music and Composition curriculum at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music.[28]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director(s)	Notes
2009	Countdown: Jerusalem	Adam Silver
2010	Tron: Legacy	Joseph Kosinski	Composed with Daft Punk First collaboration with Kosinski
2011	Mamitas	Nicholas Ozeki
	The Raid	Gareth Evans	Composed with Mike Shinoda First collaboration with Evans
2013	Oblivion	Joseph Kosinski	Composed with M83 Second collaboration with Kosinski
2014	The Raid 2	Gareth Evans	Composed with Aria Prayogi & Fajar Yuskemal Second collaboration with Evans
	Earth to Echo	Dave Green
	Stand	Cosmos Kiindarius
	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Michael Bay	Additional music Score composed by Steve Jablonsky
2015	The Divergent Series: Insurgent	Robert Schwentke	First collaboration with Schwentke
	Straight Outta Compton	F. Gary Gray
2016	The Divergent Series: Allegiant	Robert Schwentke	Second collaboration with Schwentke
	The Siege of Jadotville	Richie Smyth
2017	Only the Brave	Joseph Kosinski	Third collaboration with Kosinski
	Wolf Warrior 2	Wu Jing
	Shimmer Lake	Oren Uziel
	The Greatest Showman	Michael Gracey	Composed with John Debney Songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
2018	Arctic	Joe Penna
	Robin Hood	Otto Bathurst
2019	Stuber	Michael Dowse	First collaboration with Dowse
	Lady and the Tramp	Charlie Bean
2020	Coffee & Kareem	Michael Dowse	Second collaboration with Dowse
	Project Power	Henry Joost Ariel Schulman
	Spontaneous	Brian Duffield
2021	Finding 'Ohana	Jude Weng
	Prisoners of the Ghostland	Sion Sono
	Happily	BenDavid Grabinski
	8-Bit Christmas	Michael Dowse	Third collaboration with Dowse
2022	Spiderhead	Joseph Kosinski	Composed with the London contemporary orchestra Fourth collaboration with Kosinski
TBA	The Machine	Peter Atencio

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2009-10	The Bannen Way	16 episodes
2010-11	Suite 7	2 episodes
2012-13	Tron: Uprising	19 episodes
2016	Dead of Summer	10 episodes
2016-17	Quantico	20 episodes
	Jean-Claude Van Johnson	6 episodes
2018	Unsolved	10 episodes
	Berlin Station	Episode: "Aut Concilio Aut Ense"
2019	Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Carnival of Doom	Composed with Jason Lazarus
2021	Shadow and Bone
	The Witcher	Season 2; 8 episodes[29]

Video games

Year	Title	Developer	Publisher
2014	The Crew	Ivory Tower	Ubisoft
2017	Need for Speed Payback	Ghost Games	Electronic Arts
2020	Star Wars: Tales From the Galaxy's Edge	ILMxLab	Disney Electronic Content

References

External links

• Official website
• Joseph Trapanese at IMDb

На других языках

---

[de] Joseph Trapanese

Joseph „Joe“ Trapanese (* 1984 in New Jersey) ist ein US-amerikanischer Produzent und Komponist für Musik von Filmen, Fernsehserien und Bühnenstücken.

---

- [en] Joseph Trapanese

---

---