Joshua Zhang

Concert II, 2024-2025 season

Joshua Zhang is a computer science and music double major at Colby College from Wayland, Massachusetts. He began playing trombone in 4th grade and studied with Brian Kay from 5th grade through 12th grade. He was selected for the NAfME All National Honors Wind Ensemble, All Eastern Wind Ensemble, MMEA All State Orchestra/Wind Ensemble, Senior and Junior District Ensembles. He played in the Rivers Youth Symphony Orchestra from 7th through 12th grade as principal trombone.

In the summer of 2022, Zhang attended Interlochen Arts Camp as a Frederick Fennell Scholar, playing in the World Youth Wind Symphony as principal trombone. Zhang won the John Philip Sousa Award for High School Band. He was also a finalist for the UMass Young Artist Competition, and he won the Second Century Award at New England Music Camp.

Zhang has been studying with Sebastian Jerosch since coming to Colby. In 2023, Zhang won Colby College's concerto competition and performed the first movement of the Grøndahl Trombone Concerto with the Colby Symphony Orchestra, earning Colby's Music Department Performance Prize of 2023