Joseph Parrish, winner of the 2022 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, has been praised for his “commanding presence, vocal warmth, and expressive depth.” A Baltimore native, he holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School, and is a Sullivan Foundation Grant winner, London Award winner, third-prize recipient at the Haydn Competition for Art Song and Opera in Rohrau, and a semifinalist in the Cesti Competition and Queen Elizabeth Competition.

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During the 2024–25 season, Joseph made his New York City solo recital debut at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in a performance co-presented by Washington Performing Arts with the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir, following his Kennedy Center debut the previous season in the same program. He joined MasterVoices in Davenport Richards' and Cote’s Blind Injustice, appearing as Earl Mann’s Cellmate, Edward Vernon, and Ensemble, and portrayed James Baldwin in Sneed and Chilton’s The Tongue and the Lash at Town Hall NYC. On the concert stage, he appeared as bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall and the Richmond Symphony; Christus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Cathedral of St. John the divine; and baritone soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with The Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.

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Additional notable engagements include performances with the Ames Town & Gown Series, Harriman-Jewell Series, Detroit Chamber Music Society (with the Miró String Quartet), Newport Classical, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Caramoor’s Schwab Vocal Rising Stars, Death of Classical, Carnegie Hall Citywide Concerts, The Kravis Center (West Palm Beach, FL), New York Festival of Song, and appearances with American Classical Orchestra, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Aiken Symphony, Princeton Pro Musica, and the Ann Arbor Symphony.

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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 Musikfestival. Additional operatic appearances include Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Cincinnati Opera and Salieri in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart et Salieri with Parlando NYC.

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Upcoming appearances for the 2025-26 season include recitals with The Clibrun, Ashmont Hill Chamber Music, New York Festival of Song, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Opera Index, and the Weinberg Center for the Arts and the George and Nora London Foundation; solo appearances with the Maryland Symphony, Anchorage Symphony, and the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall; performances with Concert Artists of Baltimore and at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; a five-borough New York City tour with members of The Orchestra of St. Luke’s; operatic appearances as Belcredi in Roberto Scarcella Perino's Enrico IV, Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème and Belcore in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore with Opera Saratoga; and the Junge Opernstars concerts in Kaiserslautern with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern.

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Joseph has served as a Music Advancement Program Chorus Fellow, Gluck Community Service Fellow, and Morse Teaching Artist, and he collaborates frequently with the nonprofit organization Voices for Bolivia.