Joe Wiedemann
"an eye for music"

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Television and film composer Joe Wiedemann has more than 40-years broadcast experience behind the keyboard AND the camera. An award-winning composer, he scores music for television, film, and professional video. As an Emmy award winning broadcast photo-journalist, he understands how important music can be to telling a compelling story.

American Idol Underground
Winner, Inaugural Classical Competition
November 20, 2005

Wiedemann's New Classical Orchestral style offers an enormous palette of instruments, sounds, and new techniques.  Musical scores available are generally suitable for professional, semi-professional, and university level ensembles.  Works for smaller and varied ensembles make good educational tools. Using electronic and acoustic instruments, Wiedemann integrates new players into classical ensembles. Whether it’s just one synth part added to an orchestra, a full concerto, symphony, quartet or duet, there will always be room for sounds the audience has never heard before. All-acoustic compositions take the orchestra and other ensembles into new territory as well.

          


        

"My first cd, Bulls & Bears, was an experiment with different types of electro-acoustic ensembles: piano and synth, woodwinds and synth, piano and electronic orchestra. It opened so many doors to a wide variety of genres for not only acoustic instruments (neoclassical, electroacoustic, film music, jazz and new age), but also electronic genres (EDM, new wave, synthwave, synthpop, ambient, chillout, IDM, game music, ethereal, soundscape, hauntology, trance and other indie styles).
Wildly flexible orchestrations often defy classification and common genre names.
I continue to compose music for broadcast television, which I've been doing since 1981, and am working on new orchestrations that have never been heard before."

Member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)
Member of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Original works have been premiered by ensembles including the Kyiv Philharmonic, Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Cal Poly MIDI Ensemble.