Born
in Port Macquarie and now residing in Sydney, Joshua holds a Bachelor of
Music degree from the University of Newcastle, majoring in voice. He
has performed with Co-Opera (Adelaide), Sydney Independent Opera, Pacific
Opera (as a Young Artist), Newcastle Festival
Opera, Opera Hunter, and Cantillation.
Joshua's
roles have included Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte in Adelaide and Melbourne
(Co-Opera), Papageno (Opera
Laboratory-Sydney) and Schaunard in La Boheme (Opera Projects). He also
played Masetto in Don Giovanni (Sydney Independent Opera), and Giuseppe in
The Gondoliers (Newcastle Festival
Opera). Other principal roles have been Escamillo (Carmen) Sprecher (The
Magic Flute) and Readymoney Matt
(The Threepenny Opera).
Joshua
attended the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School on scholarship in 2016,
performing the roles of Orfeo (Orfeo
ed Eurydice-Gluck), Jupiter (Orpheus in the Underworld-Offenbach) and Dr
Cajus (Die Lustigen Weiber von
Windsor-Nicolai).
In
competitions, Joshua has excelled; he was delighted to be named as a
Finalist in the German-Australian Opera Grant Wiesbaden (Encouragement
Grant), and also finalist in the Sydney Eisteddfod
Opera Awards.
Recent
performance highlights include the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge
Foundation Rossini Gala, Music at
Manly's Concert Season, and 'An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan ' with
Stuart Maunder and the Opera and Arts Support Group.
Joshua
has performed many concerts as Baritone soloist including Mozart's Requiem
K.626 with the Newcastle University
Choir, Faure’s Requiem for the Illawarra Choral Society and most
recently Handel's Messiah for Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.