Joshua Bishop

Joshua Bishop currently serves as the Assistant Director for Student Services in the School of Music at East Carolina University. In this role, he is in charge of undergraduate recruitment and enrollment for the School. He earned his Master’s degree from the Jacob’s School of Music at Indiana University in music performance and his Bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University with a degree in music performance. In his previous role, he was the Lecturer of Low Brass and Financial Aid Counselor at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD. His primary instructors include Demondrae Thurman, Carl Lenthe, Stephen Ivany, Joanna Hersey and Tom McCaslin.

Josh is active as a performer having performed with ensembles such as the Black Diamond Philharmonic and the world-renowned North Carolina Brass Band. As a soloist Josh has performed with various high schools across North Carolina, the Triangle Brass Band, the East Carolina University Wind Ensemble, Frostburg State Wind Ensemble, and was featured on a performance of Karl King’s Melody Shop with the Indiana University Wind Ensemble. Josh is active in chamber music as a founding member of the Sequence Quartet, a professional euphonium quartet based on the East Coast.

As an educator, Josh teaches privately and has given clinics to middle and high schools across the East coast and has also given masterclasses to collegiate low brass students across both the United States and Canada. Josh currently performs on a Miraphone 5050 Ambassador euphonium and an Edwards T-350E tenor trombone.