Joseph Parrish, winner of the 2022 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, is a Baltimore native with degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School. He made his NYC recital debut at Merkin Hall in a performance co presented by WPA with the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir as a follow up to his Kennedy Center debut the previous season.

Joseph made his European opera debut with the Salzburg Festival as Potapitsch in Prokofiev’s The Gambler and his European solo recital debut at the Usedomer Music Festival. He’s appeared with Cincinnati Opera, singing Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Parlando NYC in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart e Salieri, as Salieri.

During the 25-26 season Joseph will appear in recital with Ashmont Hill Chamber Music, New York Foundation of Song, Baruch PAC, and Weinberg Center for the Arts. He’ll also appear as soloists with the Maryland Symphony, Anchorage Symphony, Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, Concert Artists of Baltimore, and Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Joseph has served as a Music Advancement Program chorus fellow, Gluck Community Service Fellow, Morse Teaching Artist, and was part of the inaugural cohort of Shared Voices, a program promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion through collaborations with Historically Black Colleges and top conservatories in the US.

Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) features New York City’s most talented concert musicians and makes its artistic home at Carnegie Hall, where it has performed more than any other orchestra since its debut there in 1983. OSL’s annual season features concert series in each of Carnegie Hall’s three venues as well as the Visionary Sounds and DeGaetano Composition Institute programs focused on contemporary composers at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the rehearsal, recording, and performance facility OSL built in 2011 and continues to operate in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. OSL proudly collaborates with Paul Taylor Dance Company for their Lincoln Center season each year and performs with a variety of artistic partners at venues throughout the city and beyond. Founded in 1974 when a group of virtuoso chamber musicians began performing together in Greenwich Village at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, the ensemble later expanded into an orchestra before catching fire on New York’s classical music scene. OSL has participated in 120 recordings, four of which have won Grammy Awards, has commissioned more than 75 new works, and has given more than 200 world, U.S., and New York City premieres. OSL champions composers from historically underrepresented groups in classical music. In recent seasons, it has presented works by Kinan Azmeh, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Coleman, Julius Eastman, Wynton Marsalis, Florence Price, Rita Dove, and Chen Yi, among others. Central to OSL’s mission, the Education and Community Engagement program presents free concerts for thousands of New York City public school students each year; offers the 150-student strong Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s (YOSL), the city’s only youth orchestra under the umbrella of a professional group; provides a mentorship program for pre-professional musicians; and brings accessible concerts throughout the city.