ABOUT

Joshua Moshier is a three-time Emmy-nominated composer, songwriter, and pianist whose music blends expressive melody and bold harmonic color with strong emotional grounding. He is known for composing the main title theme to IFC’s Documentary Now! starring Bill Hader and Fred Armisen, and scoring the acclaimed FX series Baskets, starring Zach Galifianakis and Louie Anderson. His work also includes the Netflix top ten-ranked series Haunted Hotel starring Will Forte and Eliza Coupe, the Peacock series Mr. Throwback starring Steph Curry and Adam Pally, and the Apple TV+ limited series The Shrink Next Door starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd.

Joshua’s music spans live-action, animation, and interactive media. His first animated film score, Sidewalk, has reached over 100 million viewers worldwide. He has since scored more than 100 shorts for Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes Cartoons, as well as The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie—the franchise’s first fully original theatrical feature—which premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and received strong reviews for its craftsmanship, thematic clarity, and expressive orchestral writing.

For over a decade, Joshua has created immersive, large-scale work for Google, including interactive spatial scores for Google Earth VR and Google Maps XR—the latter now featured on the Samsung Galaxy XR headset. These scores have been widely praised for transforming virtual exploration into an emotional, meditative experience.

His debut release as a recording artist is Semipermanence, a dreamy and genre-fluid LP that was named a best new album by All Songs Considered from NPR Music and featured on Spotify Editorial’s State of Jazz playlist. The album premiered alongside a series of videos created by Baskets editor/co-producer Micah Gardner, including Listen to Semipermanence with Fred Armisen. 

Born in Baton Rouge and raised in the midwest, Joshua studied music at Northwestern University, where he began collaborating with student filmmakers and working at the Interactive Audio Lab in the Computer Science department. While working in Chicago as a pianist with trumpeter Marquis Hill, he found kinship in the city’s comedy community which led to film collaborations with improvising actors from Second City and iO. He segued more deeply into scoring as a fellow at the Sundance Institute Composers Lab at Skywalker Sound and the BMI Conducting Workshop.

Joshua has presented his work and music at a range of schools and organizations, including the Academy of Scoring Arts, the Society of Composers and Lyricists, ASIFA-Hollywood, Google, New York University and Northwestern University’s Sound Arts program.