Todd Tarantino (b.1974) is a New York City based composer, performer and conductor. He travels extensively, often for at least three months of the year, seeking sounds and experiences, and his compositions are musical enactments of these experiences. Rather than imitating ÒforeignÓ sounds, however, his works adapt his own musical language to the images and situations he experiences while abroad, making the music a narrative embodiment of the experience.

Tarantino's music has been performed throughout America as well as in Europe, Asia and Africa by musicians such as Ensemble Moderne Akademie, Columbia Sinfonietta, Second Instrumental Unit, saxophonist Eliot Gattegno, pianist Barbara Lieurance, and the OCNM Ensemble under the direction of Zsolt Nagy. His music has been played at venues as varied as the ISCM World Music Days, the Ostrava Days New Music Festival in the Czech Republic, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, the Aspen Music Festival in America, the Arab Perspectives Festival in Egypt as well as throughout New York.

Currently, he is a professor of Music Theory at the Manhattan School of Music. His principal compostions teachers have included Fred Lerdahl, John Luther Adams, Stephen Siegel and Jonathan Kramer.