Joel Goodman (composer)

Joel Goodman is an American film composer, music business entrepreneur and educator.

His work has appeared at every major film festival in the world and includes scores to films and television programs that have received 5 Oscar nominations, 15 Emmy awards and over 25 Emmy nominations. Prior to scoring films, Joel composed music for advertising and produced records, including those for Chuck Mangione,Livingston Taylor and Carla Lother. In 1999, he founded the record label Museum Music and in 2002 co-founded the music licensing and publishing company MusicBox. Joel conducts university master classes in the US and Europe, is a regular panelist for such organizations as ASCAP, IFP, AFI and SCL amongst others, and currently serves on the board of the Production Music Association, where he is the Chairman of the Performing Rights Committee.

Joel was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in Queens, where he learned to play his first instrument (the trumpet) from the legendary public school music educator Allen Stier. He attended high school in Manhattan at The High School of Music & Art, studying jazz with Justin DiCioccio and orchestral performance with Sydney Baker while taking private bass lessons from Rich Samalin and Ken Smith. As a result, Joel played trumpet in the orchestra, and wrote arrangements and played bass for his high school jazz band. Some notable classmates of Joel's include Charley Drayton, Bernard Wright, Sterling Campbell, Tony Mangurian, Larry Aberman, Erik Sanko, Eric Rosenberg, Roey Shamir and Marcus Rojas.

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