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Josh Oxford (born June 16, 1985 in Cortland, New York) is a performer, composer and arranger in many different styles of music, playing piano, percussion, and synthesizer. Josh graduated with a BM in Percussion Performance from the Ithaca College School of Music in 2007, having played in a wide variety of ensembles. Mr. Oxford is a full time Staff Accompanist at Ithaca College. He has recorded with award winning folk rock musician Michael Mazochi and with Klezmer clarinetist Joel Rubin. He has toured on percussion with Frank Zappa cover band Project/Object, on keyboard with Mother Mallard, and is an avid transcriber and arranger of Zappa’s music. Josh has also performed in and done synthesizer programming for over a dozen musicals in the Central New York area as well as making his music directorial debut in Bat Boy: The Musical in LA at the Hudson Theater. Josh composes and arranges primarily for his ensemble The OXtet, and also writes 12-Tone pop music. He is a collector of vintage keyboards and synthesizers.