About
Josephine is a violinist based in Berlin, having previously lived and studied in the USA, Australia and Europe.
Currently, Josephine is an Academist of the Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker, and studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Suyeon Kang. She previously graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music (BM’21) where she studied with Pamela Frank and Arnold Steinhardt, and she completed her studies in Australia at the Australian National Academy of Music with Robin Wilson in 2022.
Josephine is a committed and passionate chamber musician. From 2021-2024, she was the first violinist of the Affinity Quartet, with whom she toured and performed internationally, and studied under Günter Pichler at the Escuela Superior de Musicá Reina Sofía, Madrid. Within Josephine's first two years with the quartet, they were awarded major prizes in four international competitions, including the 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and 2022 International Mozart Competition, and were the winners of the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. They received lessons from members of the Alban Berg, Artemis, Casals, Kuss Quartet and Meta4 Quartets, including Jonathan Brown, Heime Müller, Gerhard Schulz, Valentin Erben and Oliver Wille.
Recently, Josephine was awarded 2nd Prize and the Max Reger Prize at the Internationaler Instrumentalwettbewerb Markneukirchen, where she performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Vogtland Philaharmonie under Simon Edelmann. Josephine made her solo debut with orchestra at age 11, and has gone on to perform as a soloist with the Melbourne, Tasmanian and Willoughby Symphony Orchestras. In 2016, she won the prestigious Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship, Australia’s richest violin competition. Josephine participated in the Menuhin International Violin Competition, and is a prizewinner of many of Australia’s major national violin competitions. She has given radio broadcast performances on RBB Radio 3, FineMusic, 3MBS and ABC Classic FM.
Josephine was an Academist of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and an Emerging Artist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra with whom she also performed as a guest violinist. She performed in the 2025 Klangraum Festival in Köln, and has collaborated with other distinguished artists such as Veronika Hagen, Brett Dean, Lawrence Power, members of the Vermeer Quartet, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian String Quartet. She has studied chamber music with members of the Dover, Guarneri, Brentano and Goldner Quartets, Gary Hoffman and John Harding.
She has participated in the Gstaad Festival Academy, YellowBarn Young Artists Program, Keshet Eilon Summer Festival, and received invaluable musical inspriation from musicians such as Rainer Schmidt, Augustin Hadelich, Vadim Gluzman and Stefan Jackiw.
Josephine plays a violin made by Giuseppe and Antonio Gagliano, Naples, 1794.