Joshua Brown
USA
Joshua Brown studies violin with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago's (MIC) Academy, an elite training program for advanced pre-college musicians. He is the recipient of the Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Laureate Fellowship, the highest level scholarship awarded by MIC. Joshua has won First Place in many competitions, including the MIC Young Artist Concerto Competition, the Sejong Music Competition, the Luminart's High School Classical Music Competition, the Asian American International Music Competition, the Alexander and Buono International String Competition, the Music Festival in Honor of Confucius Competition, the DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers, the Robert Stanger Young Artist Competition, and the Rockville Competition for Piano and Strings. He was recently named a 2016 National Young Arts Winner, and he was awarded the American Opera Society of Chicago's 2016 Eleanor Pearce Sherwin Scholarship, as well as scholarships from both the Highland Park Music Club and the Luminarts Cultural Foundation at the Union League Club of Chicago.
This past summer, Joshua was awarded both Second Place and the Audience Award in the 2015 Cooper International Violin Competition in Ohio. He had the distinct honor of playing the Shostakovich Violin Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra, under the baton of Jahja Ling. "Had he played from behind a curtain. you wouldn't have believed that Joshua Brown...was only 15," wrote Daniel Hathaway for clevelandclassical.com. His interpretation of Dmitri Shostakovich's first violin concerto was so maturely wrought that it might have come from a seasoned professional. Brilliantly played and expertly paced, Brown's performance checked into every emotional corner of [the] work ... Brown was spellbinding throughout his entire time on stage." Mark Satola in The Plain Dealer described Brown's performance as "stunning" and "on an Olympian level... Brown played with such assurance that it was easy to forget he was a young teenager."
Most recently, Joshua received more awards than any other participant at the 2015 IX International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians held in Novosibirsk, Russia, taking home the Audience Award, Honorable Mention, the Academy of Arts Golden Medal, and the Siberian Academy of Arts Talent Award. He also had the honor of performing in the First Prize Winners Gala Concert and being formally invited to perform with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra during its 2016/2017 season.
Joshua has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Severence Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, and Arnold Katz State Concert Hall in Novosibirsk, Russia, among others. In addition to performing with the Cleveland Orchestra, he has also recently soloed with the Oistrach Symphony Orchestra, the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra, the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra, and the New North Shore Chamber Orchestra. The 2015/2016 season includes performances with the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra, second performances with both the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra and the New North Shore Chamber Orchestra, as well as solo appearances on WFMT's Introductions and on NPR's nationally syndicated program From the Top.
In addition to his solo work, Joshua enjoys performing chamber music. As part of the Fortis Piano Quartet, Joshua was the Grand Prize Winner in the 2015 A.N. & Pearl G. Barnett Chamber Music Competition, was a semifinalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and was featured on WFMT's Introductions. Joshua also enjoys playing music with his brother and sister, and the three siblings have been featured playing their violins on both Fox News and WFMT.
Joshua has had the privilege of taking lessons and master classes with teachers such as Pinches Zuckerman, Rachel Barton Pine, Ilya Kaler, Shirley Givens, Jonathan Carney, Jody Gatwood, Igor Yuzefovich, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Lambert Orkis, Welt Hertenstein Nurit Pacht, and Daniel Phillips. He plays on a 1910 Vincenzio Postiglione violin, generously on loan to him by the Virtu Foundation.
This past summer, Joshua was awarded both Second Place and the Audience Award in the 2015 Cooper International Violin Competition in Ohio. He had the distinct honor of playing the Shostakovich Violin Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra, under the baton of Jahja Ling. "Had he played from behind a curtain. you wouldn't have believed that Joshua Brown...was only 15," wrote Daniel Hathaway for clevelandclassical.com. His interpretation of Dmitri Shostakovich's first violin concerto was so maturely wrought that it might have come from a seasoned professional. Brilliantly played and expertly paced, Brown's performance checked into every emotional corner of [the] work ... Brown was spellbinding throughout his entire time on stage." Mark Satola in The Plain Dealer described Brown's performance as "stunning" and "on an Olympian level... Brown played with such assurance that it was easy to forget he was a young teenager."
Most recently, Joshua received more awards than any other participant at the 2015 IX International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians held in Novosibirsk, Russia, taking home the Audience Award, Honorable Mention, the Academy of Arts Golden Medal, and the Siberian Academy of Arts Talent Award. He also had the honor of performing in the First Prize Winners Gala Concert and being formally invited to perform with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra during its 2016/2017 season.
Joshua has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Severence Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, and Arnold Katz State Concert Hall in Novosibirsk, Russia, among others. In addition to performing with the Cleveland Orchestra, he has also recently soloed with the Oistrach Symphony Orchestra, the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra, the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra, and the New North Shore Chamber Orchestra. The 2015/2016 season includes performances with the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra, second performances with both the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra and the New North Shore Chamber Orchestra, as well as solo appearances on WFMT's Introductions and on NPR's nationally syndicated program From the Top.
In addition to his solo work, Joshua enjoys performing chamber music. As part of the Fortis Piano Quartet, Joshua was the Grand Prize Winner in the 2015 A.N. & Pearl G. Barnett Chamber Music Competition, was a semifinalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and was featured on WFMT's Introductions. Joshua also enjoys playing music with his brother and sister, and the three siblings have been featured playing their violins on both Fox News and WFMT.
Joshua has had the privilege of taking lessons and master classes with teachers such as Pinches Zuckerman, Rachel Barton Pine, Ilya Kaler, Shirley Givens, Jonathan Carney, Jody Gatwood, Igor Yuzefovich, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Lambert Orkis, Welt Hertenstein Nurit Pacht, and Daniel Phillips. He plays on a 1910 Vincenzio Postiglione violin, generously on loan to him by the Virtu Foundation.