Violinist

Since making a splash at the Inaugural 2023 Global Music Education International Competition in Beijing (and winning the $100,000 Grand Prize), violinist Joshua Brown has captured the hearts of listeners through his passionate and virtuosic playing. Josh and Victor open our season with the monumental Franck Sonata, followed by a display of jaw-dropping technique in works by Kreisler and Paganini.

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It's Show Time!

At the home of Eric Clauson

Student Solo Recitals: Joshua Brown, alto saxophone and Erika Reiman, piano

FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre

Joshua Brown

Arlington Music Hall

NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow.

Recital: Joshua Brown '24 MM, Violin

New England Conservatory

An evening of Romantic passion and vivid storytelling. Joshua Brown performs Max Bruch’s beloved Violin Concerto No. 1, filled with soaring melodies and virtuoso flair. The program concludes with Hector Berlioz’s groundbreaking Symphonie fantastique, a bold and imaginative journey through love, obsession, and fantasy.

Violinist Joshua Brown is recognized internationally for his expressive artistry, praised for his “richness of sound, elegance of reading, and commitment of every moment at the service of the work” (La Libre). He rose to global prominence following his success at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, where he was awarded Second Prize along with both Audience Awards. In 2025, he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the CAG Louis and Susan Meisel Prize, and is represented by Concert Artists Guild.

Symphonie Fantastique

Folsom Lake College

Recipients of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and many other international prizes, pianist Evren Ozel and violinist Joshua Brown perform a program exploring the writer Marcel Proust’s assertion that music alone can access what language leaves unsaid. The works on the program bear a direct literary imprint: Chausson's Poème translates a short story by Turgenev into musical form, while Schumann's Kreisleriana depicts E.T.A. Hoffmann's fictional musician Johannes Kreisler. Debussy’s Preludes for piano include literature references from Baudelaire to Shakespeare and more. The movements from the F.A.E. Sonata and Ysaÿe's Ballade, meanwhile, were inspired by their composers’ close friendships with poets and literary figures of their time. Finally, perhaps the most remarkable connection on this program belongs to Fauré's Violin Sonata and Proust. Through his In Search of Lost Time, Proust immortalizes Fauré as the fictional composer Vinteuil, whose violin sonata becomes a recurring symbol of longing and lost love. That a real piece of music could be so thoroughly absorbed into one of literature's greatest novels speaks to exactly the kind of alchemy this program sets out to explore.

Violinist

Joshua Brown

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 10, 2026

Symphonie Fantastique · Folsom Lake Symphony

Oct 22, 2026

Evren Ozel, piano & Joshua Brown, violin · Kaufman Music Center

Past events

Sep 21, 2025

It's Show Time! · Memphis Chamber Music Society

Mar 14, 2025

Student Solo Recitals: Joshua Brown, alto saxophone and Erika Reiman, piano · Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Violin Sonata No. 1 by Fauré

Kaufman Music Center

Violin in Violin Sonata in D minor by Ysaÿe

Kaufman Music Center

Violin in Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor by Bruch

Folsom Lake Symphony

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