A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Joshua has taken the stage with numerous companies throughout California. Joshua studied both Music and Politics at the University of California Santa Cruz. While in the Bay Area Joshua studied classical voice for five years with tenor and stage director Brian Staufenbiel, culminating in a solo recital featuring Robert Schumann’s Dictherliebe. Joshua worked and made his home throughout the country, but was eventually drawn to return to the Golden State.
Ever since singing in the chorus of Tales of Hoffman at the age of seventeen, Joshua has been in love with opera. He is privileged in his career to have sung with many different opera companies, including: San Diego Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Opera San Jose, West Bay Opera, Golden Gate Opera, and Townsend Opera. Some of his most memorable moments in opera are: the Act Four Finale in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro, the Triumphal March in Verdi’s Aida, and the Septet from Lehar’s Merry Widow. Joshua most recently took the stage in San Diego Opera’s 2011 production of Gounod’s Faust.
Joshua has not limited himself to just opera. He recently made his first foray into Shakespeare, playing Laertes in Hamlet; as well as performing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Flos Campi and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the combined San Diego Symphony and San Diego Master Chorale. Joshua also partakes in Musical Theatre from time to time, having sung and danced his way through classics such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Showboat, and West Side Story.
Joshua currently lives in San Diego with his beautiful wife and works full time at the Old Globe Theatre. Joshua is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists
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