Composer, Songwriter, Performer and Orchestrator Joachim Horsley, generally referred to simply as "Jo" (pronounced "yo"), has always believed that music, at its best, will reflect on the common human experience in ways that words can not. Recent projects include orchestrating/arranging for John Legend's "All of Me" Tour and orchestrating Ben Folds' Piano Concerto. He scored the Lionsgate film Rapture-Palooza, starring Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Up In the Air), Craig Robinson (The Office, Peeples), and Rob Corddry (Hot-Tub Time Machine, The Daily Show). Working with composer Anton Sanko, Horsley orchestrated and conducted the feature films "Ouija", "The Possession", and "Rabbit Hole" (starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart), as well as the epic seven-part global programing event "Great Migrations," which aired on the National Geographic Channel and won a News and Documentary Emmy® for music and sound. Horsley has scored over 25 independent films including the documentary "Unattached," which won the Silver Medal at the Student Academy Awards®. He has arranged and conducted orchestras for many recording artists including The Pet Shop Boys on their recent release "Elysium." His work has screened at film festivals all over the world, including Sundance, South by Southwest, Cannes, Telluride, Palm Springs and Tribeca. Horsley's work can be heard in television shows, commercials, and on-air promotions on NBC, ABC, HBO, TruTV, A&E, The Biography Channel, The History Channel, The Travel Channel, and Peabody Award-Winning Onion News Network (TheOnion.com). Horsley grew up in a musical family with as much appreciation for Bach, Wagner and Chopin as for The Beatles, Chuck Berry and Yes. Knowing that his sonic curiosity would outpace his classical piano training, Horsley's parents bought a second-hand four-track recording machine when he was 12-years-old. He began to record and perform his own compositions, learning a broad range of instruments and styles in the process. As a teenager, Horsley played piano in hotels and jazz clubs and continued to explore jazz arranging and composition at Skidmore College in New York. There he studied with Chris Brubeck, son of jazz legend Dave Brubeck, before graduating in 2000 with a BA in Music with a focus in Composition and Recording Engineering. He continued his composition and orchestration studies with Samuel Adler in Berlin, Germany. Between 2000 and 2005, Horsley and his brother Erich toured with 'America's Only Double-Piano Rock Band' LittleHorse, which has won praise from many national publications including Keyboard Magazine and National Public Radio. In 2007, Horsley was awarded the Grand Prize Winner at the John Lennon Songwriting Contest for his song "I Want Your Love."