About Us

Music Outside The Box is a growing digital music publisher partnering with music ensembles to impact local communities. MOTB provides original music and public domain arrangements for music ensembles in exchange for community service or donations to local community service providers. 

Joe Sandoval

is the composer/arranger behind Music Outside The Box. Sandoval is a retired music educator with over 40 years of experience in a variety of educational settings including 28 years as a high school band and jazz ensemble director. Sandoval wrote and arranged for both traditional and non-traditional ensembles throughout his career. He also ensured that community service was always an essential component of his curriculum, and his ensembles participated in many acts of service, ranging from performing at a children’s hospital and various local community organizations to organizing clothing and toy drives for a local homeless shelter.

Sandoval knew he could not stay away from the world of music education after retirement, and he sought a way to give educators easy access to unique and exciting repertoire. Knowing the challenges of funding a music program firsthand, Sandoval designed MOTB to provide a small degree of budgetary relief by providing music in exchange for community service as well as allowing directors to provide copies of parts to the ensemble without existing copyright restrictions. Over the years Sandoval also envisioned a better way to address the curriculum challenges for music educators. Having both personally experienced and witnessed the struggle that newer music educators often encounter when seeking to structure their curriculum through effective scaffolding, Sandoval developed his Primer concept for his own compositions and arrangements. It is his hope that these Primers will alleviate some of the stress of preparing multiple works for a concert cycle, as well as provide a foundation upon which educators can build their own unique teaching system.  
 
Joe Sandoval earned his BA in Music at San Jose State University, where he studied composition with Higo Harada and saxophone performance with Bill Trimble. He completed his credential in music education through Pacific Union College and California State University, Stanislaus.

Vision

MOTB envisions music ensembles everywhere participating in community service and/or contributing donations to local community organizations. Many ensembles are already active in their communities and MOTB is a thank you and encouragement to continue this essential work. For those ensembles who have limited experience or have not had the experience, MOTB is encouraging you to explore how you might impact your local community. 

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Privacy

MOTB respects and protects your privacy. We do not sell or share information you provide on MOTB. Our web site does analyze visits to the site but does not identify any information that is personally identifiable. For links to non-MOTB web sites, please consult that site’s Privacy Policy.

Mission

The mission of MOTB is to collaborate with and encourage those who take music performance outside the box of rehearsal rooms and performance stages and engage in building community through community service. Music Outside The Box does not sell music to performing organizations. Music Outside The Box provides music in exchange for community service or donations to 501(c)(3) organizations serving your community.

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Nonprofit

Music Outside The Box is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation ID#5620882 recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt nonprofit organization EIN#92-3529067.