Josh Winiberg

Josh Winiberg (born May 9 1987) is an English composer, pianist and producer.

Genre
Piano works
Josh composed his first solo piano album, Sunrise, at the age of 16.
Sunrise is minamalist piano music. Since then his piano music is more difficult to classify, continuing the minamalist style but also taking inspiration from electronica, dance music, rock music, film/game soundtracks, new age music and world music.

Other works
Josh's recent concerts involve playing composed and improvised pieces over live electronica and orchestral music written himself. His recent scores are electronica and orchestral as well as piano oriented.

Influences
Josh lists his influences as Thom Yorke, Muse, Ojos de Brujo, Shpongle, Four Tet, Celtic Cross, The Aloof, Philip Glass, Ludovico Einaudi, Yann Tiersen, Michael Nyman, Djivan Gasparyan, Mercan Dede, Chopin, Shostakovich, Debussy, Bartók and Nobuo Uematsu.

Discography and projects
Solo Albums
To date, Josh has released three solo piano albums - Sunrise (2004), Silent Embrace (2005), and Those Nights (2008). Those Nights is currently only available as a digital download, with a CD release due in summer 2008. A compliation of non-solo piano work is also available under the title Short Lived Endless Moments, featuring electronic and orchestral compositions.

Other works
Josh composed the soundtrack for the video game, Mr Smoozles Goes Nutso, released by Juniper Games in 2006, as well as for numerous short films and dance projects. Motion (from Sunrise) was featured on a DVD documentary about the band Muse entitled Muse: Manic Depression.

Three specially remixed tracks from Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso have recently been released on Last FM under the title Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso OST.

Performance
Josh performs regularly, mostly in Essex (his hometown) and in Devon (where he currently attends university). His international performances include the USA, Ireland and mainland Europe, most notably at the Ravello Festival, Italy in 2004, at the Villa Ruffolo - a place which famously inspired Wagner.

Josh's live performances always involve a certain degree of improvisation, and normally consist of a mixture of solo piano, electronic and orchestral works.

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