Joseph LoDuca

Biography:

The television scores for Spartacus, Leverage, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Young Hercules, The Librarians TV series, American Gothic, and Jack of All Trades are among the most well-known works by American composer Joseph LoDuca, who was born in 1958. Originally a skilled jazz guitarist from the Detroit, Michigan, USA, area, LoDuca regularly contributes music to the films and television shows of actor Bruce Campbell, producer/director Dean Devlin, producer/director Sam Raimi, and producer/director Robert Tapert. Before working on his first movie, The Evil Dead, he put out a jazz LP called Glisten.

Among LoDuca’s accolades are two Primetime Emmy Awards, eleven Primetime Emmy nominations, and four years in a row of ASCAP’s “Most Performed Underscore” awards. In addition to being hailed as “Horror Film Composer of the Year” for his composition to Army of Darkness, he received nominations for a César Award, Meilleure Musique Écrite Pour Un Film (Best Music), and a Saturn Award  for the French international film Brotherhood of the Wolf.