“Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.”

~ Quincy Jones

As an orchestrator, arranger, and conductor, Justin Ralls continually collaborates with diverse ensembles, artists, and organizations bringing decades of craft in composition, engraving, transcription, and Ph.D. research in several non-Western musical traditions toward novel collaborations.

Collaboration with singer-songwriter Ron Artis II and Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra. Arrangement and orchestrations by Justin Ralls.

Justin Ralls joins the team as orchestrator, arranger, and conductor for the upcoming premiere of composer Aaron Nigel Smith’s folk-opera, York the Explorer.

Join us October 24-25, 2025 for the world premiere of this incredible new work highlighting the exceptional story of York, an African-American slave and member of the historic Lewis & Clark Expedition.