This concert is the North Carolina Symphony debut for Joshua Brown. 

Violinist Joshua Brown has been praised for “richness of sound, elegance of reading…commitment of every moment at the service of the work…” (La Libre). Awarded a 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he won the second prize and both audience awards at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Other international competition successes include the first prize at the inaugural 2023 Global Music Education International Violin Competition in Beijing, China, as well as the first prize and audience award at the 2019 International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, Germany. He was the recipient of a 2025 CAG Louis and Susan Meisel Prize.

First recognized for his debut performance with The Cleveland Orchestra, Brown 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 Liège, among others. 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;” 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, Brown is a 2027-30 Bowers Program Artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He received the Kronberg Academy’s 2023 Manfred Grommek Prize. He is currently pursuing his Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Donald Weilerstein, after also earning his bachelor's and master's degrees there. He previously studied with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago.

Brown plays a Nicolò Amati violin from Cremona, circa 1635-1640, on extended loan through the Mary B. Galvin Foundation and the Stradivari Society, a division of Bein & Fushi, Inc.