J.P. Redmond was born in California in 1999 and grew up in Yonkers, New York. He currently studies composition at The Juilliard School with Dr. Christopher Rouse and piano privately with Ann Schein. Since 2010, J.P. also studied composition at Concordia Conservatory with Dr. Matt Van Brink.

J.P. has been recognized with a number of honors: he is a 2017 Davidson Fellow and a 2017 National YoungArts Foundation Finalist; he has received four ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards—including the 2015 Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship, a 2018 BMI Student Composer Award, a 2016 American Composers Forum NextNotes Award, a 2016 National YoungArts Foundation Honorable Mention and 2015 Merit award, and a 2013 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award and appearance on NPR’s From the Top.

Summer festivals J.P. has participated in include Chamber Music Northwest in Portland as protege composer-in-residence, the National Youth Orchestra of the USA in 2017 as an apprentice composer , the Chelsea Music Festival and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 2016, the Curtis Institute of Music Young Artist Summer Program in 2015, and the NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop in 2014.