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Justin Goldner

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Justin Goldner
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Justin Goldner is an American music producer, songwriter, arranger and session musician originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]

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His performances have been featured on Grammy, Latin Grammy and Tony award-winning projects (Dear Evan Hansen),[2][3][4] as well as the Golden Globe winning film The Greatest Showman, Disney's live-action Snow White,[5] and television shows including Hazbin Hotel.[6] He is a frequent contributor to projects by composers Pasek and Paul and Jason Robert Brown, including the latter’s Broadway musical The Bridges of Madison County.[7][4]

Goldner has been featured in mandolin performances with Sting at Carnegie Hall and live on NBC’s Christmas at Rockefeller Center,[8] as well as live performance with Ben Platt on the 60th Annual Grammy Awards telecast from Madison Square Garden.[9][10] He also appears in Platt's Live from Radio City Music Hall concert special on Netflix.[11]

As a music producer and songwriter, Goldner is known for drawing upon both acoustic and electronic textures.[12] Since 2009, his work as producer and bandleader of Grace McLean & Them Apples has yielded two EPs and the full-length My Lovely Enemy, combining McLean’s vocal looping techniques with organic instruments, garnering recognition in Rolling Stone and the New York Times.[13][14][15][16][17]

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Goldner performing with Childish Gambino at Bowery Ballroom in New York

Goldner participated in developing the music for Pasek and Paul’s films The Greatest Showman, Spirited, and Lyle, Lyle Crocodile[18], as well as their musical Dear Evan Hansen, which he ultimately performed on Broadway and in the 2021 film adaptation.[2][3][4][19] He has been featured in other performances with Ricky Martin,[20] Macy Gray, Tori Kelly,[21] Cynthia Erivo,[22] Donald Glover,[23] Shawn Mendes,[24] Ledisi,[25] Bruce Springsteen,[26] James Taylor,[27] Natasha Bedingfield,[28] Idina Menzel,[29] Jordin Sparks,[30] Jin (BTS),[31] Aloe Blacc, Lizzy McAlpine, Anaïs Mitchell,[32] JC Chasez & Lance Bass (*NSYNC),[33] Renée Fleming,[34] Max Martin,[35] Ludwig Goransson, Ariana DeBose,[36] Stephen Sondheim, Lin-Manuel Miranda,[37] T Bone Burnett,[38] Alan Menken,[35] Chris Thile,[35] Matisyahu, Amanda Brown,[39] Steve Martin, John Turturro,[40] Allison Williams, Jane Monheit,[41] Twyla Tharp, Ryan Beatty,[42] Darren Criss,[43] Jesse McCartney, Emily Kinney,[44] Audra McDonald,[45] Jeremy Jordan, Milck,[28] Lolo, Grace Weber, Elle Varner, Lawrence,[35] and his mentor, Meshell Ndegeocello.[18]

Other notable production and songwriting releases have included folk-pop trio Saint Adeline's eponymous debut album,[46] Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio's Bubble Boy[47][48][49], and "Destiny", included on Hasbro's Jem & The Holograms tribute album.[50] Goldner has also performed classically with the Chelsea Symphony and Teatro Graticello, and performed live electronics and sound design with new acoustic crossover group 9 Horses.[12] He is known as well for collaborations with global artists, including Bollywood composers Shankar Mahadevan and Vishal Bhardwaj, Latin Grammy-winning Venezuelan vocalist/trumpeter Linda Briceño[51][52] and Cuban rock band Del Exilio.[53][54]

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Discography

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Production & Songwriting

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  • Grace McLean – My Lovely Enemy (2024)[16][55][13]
  • Mike Tedesco – Grand Delusions (2024)[56]
  • Tori Kelly – "Waving Through a Window" (2021)[57][58]
  • Ariana DeBose – "Shall We Dance" (2021)[59][60]
  • Anne of Green Gables: A New Musical (2020)[61][62]
  • Drew Gasparini – We Aren't Kids Anymore (2020)[63]
  • Mike Tedesco – Hardly Recognizable (2019)
  • Hey Guy – "Stereo" (2019), "Every Turn" (2024)[64]
  • Jared Saltiel – Out of Clay (2018)
  • 9 Horses – "The Water Understands" (2017)
  • Cinco Paul – Bubble Boy [Original Cast Recording] (2017)
  • Alice J Lee – "In Love With Drew", "Trouble" (2016)
  • Janet Krupin – Hipster Pinup (2016)
  • Saint Adeline – Saint Adeline (2016)
  • Barnaby Bright – "Destiny" (released on Truly Outrageous: A Tribute to Starlight Records, 2015)
  • Grace McLean & Them Apples – Natural Disaster (2015)
  • Bri Arden – All The Above (2014)
  • Abby Bernstein – Talk in Tongues (2012)
  • Ryan Amador – Symptoms of a Wide-Eyed Being (2012)
  • Grace McLean & Them Apples – Make Me Breakfast (2012)
  • Carrie Manolakos – Echo (2012)
  • Shaina Taub – What Otters Do (2011)

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