Joshua Umaña-Santacruz is a Pianist, Composer, and Teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a pianist, Joshua has experience performing classical music as a soloist, accompanying instrumentalists, singers, choirs and ensembles, and as a member of jazz/ rock combos, and continues to perform regularly. As a composer, Joshua has written contemporary classical works featuring solo piano and chamber ensembles, including string quartet, saxophone quartet, and many others. He has also composed, arranged, recorded, and mixed soundtrack music for film, most recently for the short film "The Woman of My Dreams" and the animation "Stuck-caIo!".

 

In 2023, Joshua was the recipient of the Walker Endowment Scholarship covering full tuition to study piano performance at San José State University, where he currently studies piano with Dr. Gwendolyn Mok and music composition with Dr. Pablo Furman. He also holds an Associate in Arts in Music with an emphasis in Piano Performance and Certificates of Accomplishment in Piano Performance and Music Theory from Ohlone College. Joshua has been teaching piano in the Bay Area since 2022 and is delighted to be teaching piano at SVCM.