Joseph Parrish was a recipient of the 2024 Sullivan Grant, a member of the Salzburger Festspiele Young Singers Project for the 2024 festival season, and a third prize winner in the Opera Index Voice Competition 2024.

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In addition to his achievements on the competition stage, Joseph is a member of the Young Concert Artists roster.

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During the 2024/2025 season, as a Young Concert Artist, Joseph will make his New York City solo recital debut at Kaufman Music Center's Merkin Hall. He joins MasterVoices to sing the role of Earl Mann’s Cellmate/Edward Vernon/Ensemble in Davenport Richards and Cote’s Blind Injustice. On the concert stage, Joseph performs as bass soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall, Christus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Musica Sacra, and baritone soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with The Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

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Joseph is an active recitalist, with performances this season at the Cosmos Club in Washington D.C. the Harriman Jewell series in Kansas City, and the Detroit Chamber Music Festival.

 

Last 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 Festival. He also debuted on the main stage with Cincinnati Opera, singing Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni, and joined Parlando NYC for a semi-staged production of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart e Salieri, as Salieri.

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Previous highlights include the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Dr. Cajus in Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, and Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at Juilliard. A champion of both early and modern music, Joseph has sung the roles of Augure in Rossi’s L’Orfeo, Il Sacerdote di Minerva in Händel’s Teseo, and Sodbuster in Mazzoli and Vavrek’s Proving Up. He has also participated in masterclasses with Stéphane Degout, Denyce Graves, and Hartmut Höll.

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Joseph is deeply committed to giving back to the communities that have supported him. He has served as a Music Advancement Program chorus teaching fellow and a Gluck Community Service fellow at the Juilliard School. Joseph was also a member of the inaugural cohort of Shared Voices, an initiative that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion through collaboration between Historically Black Colleges and Universities, top conservatories, and schools of music, in partnership with the Denyce Graves Foundation. Additionally, he frequently collaborates with Voices for Bolivia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of impoverished elderly in Bolivia. Joseph holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School.