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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This 2024/2025 season, as a Young Concert Artist, Joseph will make his New York City solo recital debut at Kaufmann Music Center's Merkin Hall. He will make his Lincoln Center debut singing the role of Earl Mann’s Cellmate/Edward Vernon/Ensemble in Davenport Richards'/Cote's opera Blind Injustice. On the concert stage, Joseph will make his Oratorio Society debut as bass soloist in Händel's Messiah at Carnegie Hall, his Alice Tully Debut as Pilate in Bach's St. John Passion, and role debut of Christus in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Musica Sacra.

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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 saw Joseph make role debuts as Potapitsch in Prokofiev's The Gambler, Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni with the Cincinnati Opera and Salieri in Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart e Salieri. He gave his first European recital with the Usedomer Musikfestival and sang in the Young Singers Project Final Concert.

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Previous highlights and roles 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. As a champion of early and modern music Joseph sang the roles of Augure in Rossi’s L’Orfeo which made its New York City premiere at Juilliard, Il Sacerdote di Minerva in Händel's Teseo, and Sodbuster in Mazzoli's/Vavrek's Proving Up. He has also enjoyed participating in masterclasses with Stéphane Degout, Denyce Graves, and Hartmut Höll.​

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Mr. Parrish is passionate about giving back to the various communities that have nurtured him. He has been both a Music Advancement Program chorus teaching fellow and Gluck Community Service fellow at the Juilliard School. Parrish was a member of the inaugural cohort of Shared Voices, an initiative designed to address diversity, equity, and inclusion through collaboration between Historically Black Colleges and Universities, top conservatories, and schools of music in the United States with the Denyce Graves Foundation. Joseph also partners frequently with Voices for Bolivia, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of impoverished elderly in Bolivia. He holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, and the Juilliard School.