Joshua Brown  &  Dina Vainshtein

Violinist Joshua Brown has been praised by audiences and critics worldwide for his “richness of sound, elegance of reading…commitment of every moment at the service of the work…” (La Libre). Joshua was awarded a 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grant, andgained international attention after winning the 2nd Prize and both Audience Awardsat the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. As the recipient of a 2025 Louis andSusan Meisel Prize, Joshua is currently represented by Concert Artists Guild and YoungClassical Artists Trust.

Joshua was first recognized for his debut performance with the Cleveland Orchestra and has gone on to perform regularly with orchestras around the world, including the Munich Radio Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege. Additionally, Joshua is a 2027-30 Bowers Program Artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and regularly appears in recitals and chamber music festivals. Recent and forthcoming performances include concerto debuts with the San Diego and North Carolina Symphonies, as well as recital appearances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Merkin Hall.

Joshua studied under Donald Weilerstein as part of the New England Conservatory’sInstitute for Concert Artists. Before his time at NEC, Joshua studied with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago. Joshua is grateful to be playing a Nicolo Amati violin from Cremona, circa 1635-1640, on loan through the generosity of the Mary B. Galvin Foundation and the Stradivari Society.

Pianist Dina Vainshtein collaborates with some of the most promising musicians of our time. Now based in Boston, she is the daughter of two pianists, and studied with Boris Berlin and Arthur Aksenov at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. At the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition, she received the Special Prize for the Best Collaborative Pianist.

She came to the United States in 2000 to attend the Cleveland Institute of Music,

where she worked with Vivian Hornik Weilerstein and Donald Weilerstein. She soon found numerous performing opportunities in the US, from Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City, to the Caramoor Festival, Music at Menlo, the Ravinia Festival, the Music Academy in the West at Santa Barbara, not to mention tours of Japan, China, Europe, and Russia.

Bob McQuiston reviewed the recent Naxos release of Emile Sauret’s violin showpieces featuring Michi Wianko and Vainshtein: “She couldn’t have a better partner than Ms. Vainshtein, who plays the perfect supporting role in these fiddle-dominated pieces. More specifically, she exercises a perfect balancing act between artistic reserve during bravura violin passages as opposed to compelling dramatic assertiveness when the piano is spotlighted.” Vainshtein made another acclaimed Naxos recital disc with Frank Huang, the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic.

For nearly a decade, Vainshtein has been affiliated with the New England Conservatory. For many years she worked with Benjamin Zander in his renowned interpretation classes. Maestro Zander praised their collaboration as “the perfect partnership; [she is] the ultimate professional.”