Joseph Church is a composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, and professor of music. His career has been eclectic and exciting, collaborating with and guiding some of the entertainment industry’s most remarkable artists and promising talent. He is perhaps best known for his music direction and arrangements for two groundbreaking Broadway musicals, The Lion King and The Who’s Tommy. Other Broadway and Off-Broadway credits as music director or conductor include In The Heights, Little Shop of Horrors, Amazing Grace, Sister Act, and Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular. Joseph is the author of two books, Music Direction for the Stage: A View from the Podium, and Rock in the Musical theatre: A Guide for Singers. His work as a composer spans multiple genres from popular songwriting to musical theatre to serious music. Joseph received a doctorate in composition in 1996 from NYU, and has been a faculty member and at other universities since then.