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Joy Son [Composer/Orchestrator/Arranger]: As a multi award-winning theatre composer, Her musicals have been performed here in the US and in Asia. As for Takarazuka Revue Company’s (founded 1913) musical 『舞音-MANON-』, she was the third foreign composer (after Frank Wildhorn and Sylvester Levay) to be commissioned to write the original musicals for them in their more than one-hundred-year history! 

Notable full length musicals: With Alan Gordon: BETTER THAN DREAMING [2020 Raise Your Voice Competition Winner, 2018 York Theatre NEO reading series workshop, 2015 Santa Fe Musical Festival, 2014 IMEA Awards] and THE UNITED STATES OF US [2014 American Harmony Prize, 2018 Florida Theatrical Association Workshop Production]; With Kirsten Guenther: LITTLE MISS FIX-IT [Pace New Musicals, Roundabout Underground Reading Series, CAP21 and Emerson College Workshop Productions]; With Steve Routman: THE FISHER KING; With Heejoon Lee: LOVERS IN PARIS (Korean title: 파리의 연인) [2012, D-Cube Arts Center, Seoul; 2012 The Musical Awards Best Score Nominee] and RUNWAY BEAT (Korean title: 런웨이 비트) [2015 Arko Art Center, Seoul]; With Keiko Ueda: 『舞音-MANON-』 [Takarazuka Revue 2015-2016 Production, Tokyo & Osaka].

With the versatility of crossing over various styles, Joy also writes classical music, pop, sacred music, and provides arrangement and orchestration services for others.

Awards: Winner of 2021 Raise Your Voice Competition; 2018 & 2019 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist; 2017 York Theatre NEO Fellow; 2015 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award semi-finalist; Winner of 2014 IMEA Awards (Best Original Score); Winner of 2013 Arts Council Korea National Grant; 2006 Shelley Pinz Prize

Affiliation: Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)

joysonmusic’s tracks

• OVERTURE by joysonmusic
• CROSS by joysonmusic
• Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus by joysonmusic
• The Trusting Heart To Jesus Clings by joysonmusic
• Christmas Story by joysonmusic