Joseph Smith
Joseph Charles Smith is a composer and orchestrator who worked as orchestrator for Jay Chattaway between  and  on the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth season of  and the first two seasons of .

Smith earned his Master of Music, Media Writing, and Production from the University of Miami, his professional diploma in Arranging/Composition from Berklee College of Music, and his Bachelor in Music Education from West Virginia University. Between 1975 and 1980, Smith worked as teacher at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He then attended the University of Miami and became an instructor in arranging, composition, ear training, and ensembles at Miami Dade Community College between 1982 and 1984.

It was also in the late 1980s that Smith started to work as an orchestrator for Jay Chattaway on film projects including the horror film Maniac Cop (1988), the action film Red Scorpion (1988), the sport romance Bull Durham (1988), the action sequel Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988), the thriller Relentless (1989), and the sequel Maniac Cop 2 (1990).

Further collaborations as composer with Chattaway include the drama Rich Girl (1991), the thriller Mirror Images (1992), Secret Games (1992), The Other Woman (1992), and Animal Crimes (1992), the drama The Pamela Principle (1992), and the drama Object of Obsession (1994).

Smith left the industry to work at the Berklee College of Music where he was Dean of Professional Writing Division between 1993 and 2003. Between 1998 and 2013 he also taught classes as a professor for Directed Study, Film Scoring, Introduction to Film Scoring, Analysis for Film Scoring, Orchestration for Film Scoring, Contemporary techniques of composition for Film Scoring, Vocal Writing, Advanced Production, Contemporary Writing, and Production. Since 1988, Smith has also been the owner of the company Pesci Music.

External links 
 
 Joseph Smith at LinkedIn.com
 Joseph Smith at APintOfUnderstandingTheMusical.com

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