Joseph Trapanese is a composer and music producer known for integrating his extensive classical training with his skill producing electronic music. He has crafted uniquely hybrid and inventive scores for Tron: Legacy (with Daft Punk), Oblivion (with M83), The Raid (with Mike Shinoda), Arctic, Straight Outta Compton, The Divergent Series’ second and third installments Insurgent and Allegiant, The Witcher, Shadow and Bone, and interactive projects for Disney Animation, EA, Lucasfilm, and Ubisoft. He has also arranged and produced songs for The Greatest Showman, Divergent, and Jason Bourne, and collaborated on albums and live events with Aloe Blacc, Amon Tobin, Dierks Bentley, Dr. Dre, The Glitch Mob, Haim, Halsey, Janelle Monae, Kelly Clarkson, Kendrick Lamar, M83, Moby, S. Carey, Sohn, Zedd and many more.

In 2022, he was commissioned by NASA to write the theme for the 2027 Mars Sample Return mission, and in 2021 he contributed production and arrangements (alongside Adam Blackstone) for the Super Bowl National Anthem. Trapanese's choral composition New Collective Consciousness, commissioned and performed by Tonality, was featured as the opening of Bjork's 2022 west coast concert tour, and addresses the climate crisis through intense harmonies and dissonances, striking choral textures, and unique text drawn from Greta Thunberg’s 2019 speech at the United Nations.

Trapanese has conducted the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, AUKSO Poland, and numerous festival and studio orchestras.