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Josh Rodriguez

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Known for his energetic rhythms, rich harmonic language, and striking colors, Josh Rodriguez (b. 1982) continues to gain recognition as an emerging composer and collaborator on a national and international scale. Born in Argentina and raised in Guatemala and Mexico, Rodriguez's musical imagination has been formed by this bilingual, multi-cultural heritage. Rodriguez collaborates regularly with film and theater directors and has received several notable concert commissions in a wide range of ...show more Known for his energetic rhythms, rich harmonic language, and striking colors, Josh Rodriguez (b. 1982) continues to gain recognition as an emerging composer and collaborator on a national and international scale. Born in Argentina and raised in Guatemala and Mexico, Rodriguez's musical imagination has been formed by this bilingual, multi-cultural heritage. Rodriguez collaborates regularly with film and theater directors and has received several notable concert commissions in a wide range of musical genres many which have been finalists for the AMERICAN PRIZE. His concert band piece WHEN STONE BECOMES FOREST won first prize at THE AMERICAN PRIZE (2022), TIKAL received Honorable Mention (2021), and DOS PALABRAS for SATB choir won first place in the Springfield Chamber Chorus competition (2022). He's written numerous choral works, music for jazz trio and big band, original scores for Courtyard Shakespeare Festival's 2019 production of Hamlet, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and CBU Theater's 2020 production of Love's Labour's Lost. In addition to concert and theater music, Rodriguez has scored numerous animated shorts, several of which have appeared in international film festivals and received special awards, and Rebel Run Studios' adaptation of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST (to be released in 2025). Rodriguez is composer-in-residence of the Corona Symphony Orchestra, and currently serves as Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Elmhurst University. Rodriguez earned his MM at the Cleveland Institute of Music and upon winning the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship moved west to study a doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research at UCLA culminated with his dissertation on Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera.  show less
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THIS BREATHLESS EARTH
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TIKAL
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TABERNACLE
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DARKNESS IS MY ONLY FRIEND
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