Joseph Church is a composer, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, pianist, author, and educator. He was the music director of two groundbreaking Broadway musicals, The Who’s Tommy and The Lion King, and holds a doctorate in composition from NYU, where he has been on the faculty since 1997.
Once on This Island is an inspiring one-act musical that first ran on Broadway in 1990 and whose West End run won a 1995 Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
[Editor’s Note: After reading my interview with Steven Alper about the use of Finale on Broadway, another long-time Finale user, Peter Miller, described to me some of his experiences on Broadway in Finale’s early days.
In a recent Finale Blog post we met composer, author, and orchestrator Steven M. Alper, a long-time user and friend of Finale.