Currently Mr. Joubert is the pianist / associate conductor for Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple on Broadway and has credits for additional orchestrations. His Broadway and regional credits include serving as musical director (New York's Shakespeare Festival Gala), orchestrator (Caroline or Change), orchestrator, musical director and pianist (3 Mo' Divas world premiere), conductor/ arranger/pianist (Three Mo' Tenors PBS special, and CD on BMG), staff pianist (Porgy and Bess, Metropolitan Opera Company), assistant musical director (Five Guys Named Moe) and assistant conductor/pianist (Big River).

Joseph Joubert began playing the piano at the age of eight; he then studied with Dora Zaslavsky and finally graduated with a Masters Degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. He won the piano competition of the National Association of Negro Musicians, received Drama Desk Award nominations for Violet at Playwrights Horizons, and multiple Grammy Awards nominations for Best Classical Cross-Over Album and Best Instrumental Accompanying Vocalists.

As a solo artist, Joubert has performed with the Manhattan Symphony, the Bronx Arts Ensemble, the New Philharmonia; the West Palm Beach, Mobile, Marin, Lancaster and Colonial Symphonies; and appeared in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. As Musical Director for Judy Collins, he performed with the London, Atlanta, Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Dayton, Houston, Kansas City, Louisville, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Portland, Oregon Symphonies. International performances include the International Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy; the Pushkin Museum Of Arts in Moscow, Russia; and an appearance in Nice, France. In Kobe, Japan, he was Musical Director for Harlem Kids Symphony.

His many collaborations include those with Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Harolyn Blackwell, Marvis Martin, Simon Estes, Hilda Harris, William Brown, Esther Hinds and Barbara Conrad. As recording artist and producer he worked with Tramaine Hawkins, Ashford and Simpson, Diana Ross, George Benson, Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, Jennifer Holiday, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross, Patti Austin, Diane Reeves, Wintley Phipps, Florence Quivar, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and The Boy's Choir of Harlem. He has provided specialized arrangements and orchestrations for "The Music Connection" released by Silver Burdett Ginn; and most recently recorded Coleridge Taylor- Perkinson's "Grass" for Piano, Strings and Percussion with Paul Freeman and the Chicago Sinfonietta, released on Cedille Records.