约书亚·罗奇，D.M.A.

Dr. Roach is the Director of Instrumental Activities. He leads the Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble and also teaches trumpet, 进行, and other courses in the music curriculum. He has also taught at Peru State College, The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, The College of New Jersey, California Lutheran University, and Southwest 密歇根 College. He has provided clinics to bands and orchestras from across the United States and has been a guest conductor for the Los Angeles Winds, cover conductor for Pacific Symphony, and assistant conductor for the Young Musician’s Foundation Debut Orchestra and the Downey Symphony Orchestra. 在国际上, he has worked with the Irvine Young Concert Artists in Korea and China and also as assistant conductor for the Landesjugendorchester of Baden-Württemberg, a highly selective youth orchestra in Southern Germany.

Before pursuing teaching full-time in higher education, Roach resided in Los Angeles, where he was the music director of the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, instrumental coach for the “Grammy Signature School Award” Diamond Bar High School, and orchestra manager for the USC Thornton School of Music. For eleven years, he spent his summers teaching at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program where he worked with domestic and international middle and high school students. From 2015-2017, he was on the brass staff for the Phantom Regiment drum and bugle corps.

Ensembles in Southern California, 密歇根, 俄亥俄州, and New Jersey have performed Roach’s compositions and arrangements, and his television music has been played on network broadcast shows such as Sport Science, 360年犯罪, 天桥骄子, and Last American Cowboy. He has assisted in productions by Turner Classic Films, PBS, Fox, Universal, and DreamWorks. In addition to the works available on his website, he is also published by Murphy Music Press.

Dr. Roach is a member of the Nebraska Music Educators Association, Nebraska State Bandmasters Association, National Association for Music Educators, Conductor’s Guild, College Band Directors National Association, and is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi. At the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, he earned a bachelor of music degree in performance, graduate certificate in scoring for motion pictures and television, and a master of music degree in instrumental 进行. At the University of 密歇根, he earned a doctoral degree in wind 进行. Roach’s primary 进行 teachers and mentors have been Michael Haithcock, 拉里·利文斯顿, 卡尔·圣.克莱尔,H. Robert Reynolds and Sharon Lavery. He studied composition with Frederick Lesemann, Jack Smalley, and David Spear. He has studied trumpet performance with Boyde Hood, 蒂莫西·莫里森, 罗素Plylar, 朱迪斯·萨克斯顿, 和马克·尼豪斯.