Since 2023, Joseph Skerik has served as violist of the Vega String Quartet, in residence as faculty at the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta and Emory University. Quartet activities include recording for PBS and collaborating with the Juilliard Quartet, Zuill Bailey, Jon Kimura Parker, Mark and Maggie O’Connor, Ransom Wilson, Ettore Causa and Amy Moretti, with appearances at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, The National Gallery in Washington D.C. and venues in Charlotte, Raleigh, Mexico, Atlanta, New York, Memphis, Maine, Washington, Texas and Alaska.
Joseph’s solo and chamber music accolades include the Yale School of Music’s Broadus Erle Prize in Chamber Music, and prizes in the Nedbal Viola Competition in Prague, American Viola Society Competition in Los Angeles and National YoungArts. Joseph also appears as a guest violist and teacher on series, festivals and ensembles such as the Highlands-Cashiers Festival, Newport Classical, Classical Music Chicago, Prussia Cove’s Open Chamber Music, Montecito Music Festival, Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival, Methow Valley Festival, Vivace Festival, the Astralis Ensemble and the Lake George Festival. He has also appeared on numerous tours for the Heifetz Institute as a soloist and chamber musician.
Committed to presenting chamber music in his home state, Joseph serves as co-artistic director of Viridian Strings, a chamber series in Northern Michigan now entering its ninth season and welcoming artists such as Nina Bernat, Nathan Meltzer, Brian Isaacs, Umi Garrett and Claire Wells, among others.
Joseph teaches chamber music and viola performance at Emory University and as of 2025 also directs the chamber music program at Emory’s Oxford Campus.
