About
Josephine is a violinist based in Berlin, having previously lived and studied in the USA, Australia and Europe.
Currently, Josephine is studying a Master of Music at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Suyeon Kang. Previously, she 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 studied under Günter Pichler, founding first violinist of the Alban Berg Quartet, 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. Josephine toured and performed internationally with Affinity Quartet, at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre and the ANAM Quartetthaus.
Josephine was selected as one of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2022 Emerging Artists, and joined the ACO Collective as a guest violinist in 2023. She has studied chamber music with members of the Dover, Guarneri, Brentano and Goldner Quartets, Gary Hoffman and John Harding. She has also collaborated with distinguished artists such as Brett Dean, Lawrence Power, members of the Vermeer Quartet, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian String Quartet.
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 and the ANAM Orchestra. 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 FineMusic, 3MBS and ABC Classic FM.
She has participated in the YellowBarn Young Artists Program, Keshet Eilon Summer Festival, and performed in masterclasses with Augustin Hadelich, Vadim Gluzman, Stefan Jackiw, Richard Tognetti, Pinchas Zukerman, Ani Schnarch and Olivier Charlier. In 2015 Josephine was selected as Concertmaster for both seasons of the Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute, as their youngest member, under international conductors, Johannes Fritszch and David Danzmayr.
Josephine plays a violin made by Giuseppe and Antonio Gagliano, Naples, 1794.