A two-time recipient of The Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, Joshua Hong graduated in 2020 from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he studied under Larry Rachleff. At Rice, Joshua served as Music Director of the Campanile Orchestra and appeared in performance regularly with the Shepherd School Orchestras. Highlights of the 2019-20 season included performances of Debussy’s La mer and Prokofiev’s 5th Symphony with the school’s flagship Symphony Orchestra and a full program of Mendelssohn, Rossini, and Haydn with its Chamber Orchestra. He previously served as Music Director of the Baltimore-based Occasional Symphony and Assistant Conductor of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. Joshua was the 2019-2020 awardee of Rice University’s Mrs. L. F. McCollum Fellowship in Music. His performances have been described as “supple, buoyant… sensitively conducted” (Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun).

This summer, Joshua will be attending the Chautauqua Institution's School of Music as the David Effron Conducting Fellow. At Chautauqua, he will assist Timothy Muffitt and lead the Festival Orchestra in performances of works by Ligeti, Rossini, and Weber.

In November 2019, Joshua guest conducted the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in two education concerts. He has served as cover conductor for three classical subscription weeks in St. Louis and two subscription weeks with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Both organizations subsequently invited him to their most recent staff conductor auditions. He has also served as cover conductor with the San Diego Symphony. Joshua made his professional subscription debut with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra in the fall of 2017.

Joshua holds a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from Peabody Conservatory, where he studied under Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar and served as Assistant Conductor of the Peabody Opera Theatre. In the summer of 2018, Joshua studied under Robert Spano as a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School. He has also been awarded conducting fellowships at the Atlantic Music Festival and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where he led the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in the world premiere of a work by Costas Dafnis.

Joshua was a founding member of the Atlas String Quartet, winners of Peabody Conservatory’s Yale Gordon Chamber Fellowship and semi-finalists in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Joshua holds a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from the Juilliard School, where he studied under Masao Kawasaki.