Bio
Tara Trudel is a versatile songwriter and composer based in Los Angeles. She started her career teaching early childhood and elementary school music in Chicago for The Merit School of Music and Chicago Public Schools. As a teaching artist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Tara performed her students’ original composition with Yo-Yo Ma. Tara left teaching to perform around the country as a Music Director with the Second City Touring Company and in the Second City kids show Improv Extravaganza Explosion.
Tara’s work has been seen in SXSW, Amazon Prime, Sony’s Voces Nuevas, and Vulture’s Best Comedy Shorts Of The Year. Her score for Chelsea Devantez’s short film BASIC won Best Score at the LA Film Awards and the Festigious International Film Festival. Tara also writes theme songs for children’s books, including Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Brigette Barrager's NYTimes bestselling UNI THE UNICORN (Random House Studio), Chelsea Lin Wallace and Hyewon Yum's ODE TO A BAD DAY (Chronicle), Jessica Kulekjian and Jennifer Bower's FIRST NOTES OF SPRING (Bloomsbury), and Julia Ember's YA novel RUINSONG (Macmillan). Her debut album, FRACTURED: FAIRY TALES REMIXED is available now, with a visual album coming on October 13, 2023.
