ABOUT

Joshua Moshier is a three-time Emmy-nominated composer, songwriter, and pianist. 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 scoring work also includes the Netflix series Haunted Hotel starring Will Forte and Eliza Coupe, the Peacock series Mr. Throwback starring Steph Curry and Adam Pally, the Apple TV+ limited series The Shrink Next Door starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, and the theatrical feature The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Joshua has scored and conducted over 500 minutes of shorts for Warner Bros. Animation’s flagship Looney Tunes Cartoons on HBO Max.

His latest 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 with 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. As an improvising pianist, he found kinship in the Chicago comedy community which led to film collaborations with improvising actors. 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 for a variety 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.