Violinist Joshua Brown has been praised by audiences and critics worldwide for his “richness of
sound, elegance of reading…commitment of every moment at the service of the work…” (La
Libre). Joshua was awarded a 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and gained international
attention after winning the 2nd Prize and both Audience Awards at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth
Competition in Brussels. Other international competition successes include 1st Prizes at both
the inaugural 2023 Global Music Education International Violin Competition in Beijing, China, as
well as the 2019 International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, Germany. As
the recipient of a 2025 CAG Louis and Susan Meisel Prize, Joshua is currently represented by
Concert Artists Guild.
Joshua was first recognized for his debut performance with the Cleveland Orchestra and has
gone on to perform regularly with orchestras around the world, including the Munich Radio
Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Civic Orchestra,
East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique
Royal de Liege, among others, continually garnering praise from critics. After his performance of
Brahms’ Violin Concerto in Beijing with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Strad
wrote, “Brown spun out silky, weightless phrases that seemed suspended in time;” in Belgium,
Le Soir described him as “a real musician, of great sensitivity…with a real sense of nuance;”
and the Indianapolis Star described his sound after a performance of Mozart’s 5th Violin
Concerto as “addictive and shimmering, with emotions like dynamic colors that shifted beneath
a clear, glassy surface.”
A passionate recitalist and chamber musician, Joshua has also appeared regularly in series
such as Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Festival Musiq3 in Brussels, the
Tchaikovsky Festival in Moscow, the ProMusica series in Mexico, the Matinée Musicale series
in Cincinnati, the Jupiter Chamber Players series in New York City, and the North Shore
Chamber Music Festival in Chicago. Joshua received the Kronberg Academy’s 2023 Manfred
Grommek Prize, and has been named a Pirastro Artist, Yamaha Young Performing Artist, and
Luminarts Fellow, among other awards.
Joshua is currently pursuing his Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music
under Donald Weilerstein after also earning his Bachelor and Master of Music there. Before his
time at NEC, Joshua studied with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago.
Joshua is grateful to be playing an outstanding Nicolo Amati violin from Cremona, circa 1635-
1640, on extended loan through the generosity of the Mary B. Galvin Foundation and the efforts
of the Stradivari Society, a division of Bein & Fushi, Inc. The Mary B. Galvin Foundation, Inc.
and the Stradivari Society support the very highest level of string playing by loaning precious
antique Italian instruments to artists of exceptional talent and ability.
