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Dr. Joshua Roach came to Peru State College in 2020 after having served as faculty at Southwestern Michigan College, The Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam, and The College of New Jersey. Dr. Roach is originally from Arizona, and before pursuing a career of teaching music full time at the collegiate level, he resided in Los Angeles where he worked with bands and orchestras throughout Southern California as a music educator, conductor, arranger, composer, and administrator. His primary conducting teachers have been Michael Haithcock, Larry Livingston, and Sharon Lavery. His trumpet teachers have included Boyde Hood, Timothy Morrison, Russell Plylar, Judith Saxton, and Mark Niehaus. He has studied composition with Frederick Lesemann, Jack Smalley, and David Spear. 

https://www.joshuaroach.net/

Within the Music Program, Dr. Roach teaches the Concert Band and Pep Band, Music Theory, World Music, Band Methods, Conducting, and the Brass Studio. Beyond the College campus, his teaching includes service as a clinician and festival adjudicator for bands and orchestras. In the past summers, Dr. Roach has also taught students at the Idyllwild Arts summer festival and at the Phantom Regiment drum and bugle corps pre-tour summer training camp.

Dr. Roach is also a composer and arranger. Ensembles in Southern California, Michigan, Ohio, and New Jersey have performed his compositions and arrangements, and his television music has been played on network broadcast shows such as Sport Science, Crime 360, Project Runway, and Last American Cowboy. He has assisted in productions by Turner Classic Films, PBS, Fox, Universal, and DreamWorks. In addition to the works available on his website, he is also published by Murphy Music Press. Dr. Roach also composes specifically for younger bands and produces accompanying materials designed to assist teachers engage their students in comprehensive musicianship.

Dr. Roach’s scholarly interests lie in conducting pedagogy and also in the curation of existing compositions for winds. He has contributed as an editor for a The Expressive Elements of Conducting and been a reader for Oxford University Press. He also creates new performance editions of works for concert band and chamber winds composed primarily by American composers.