Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Joshua Peters is currently studying at the Schulich School of Music with Axel Strauss. Peters has collaborated with many renowned musicians including Menahem Pressler, Kim Kashkashian, André LaPlante, Steven Dann, and members of the Emerson, Concord, St. Lawrence, Guarneri and Pacifica quartets. He has also studied chamber music with members of the Alban Berg, Guarneri, Cleveland, Juilliard, Kronos, Miró, and Takács String Quartets. He has appeared as a soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions, as concertmaster of the McGill Symphony Orchestra, and as a member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Peters has been coached by and performed works of prominent composers John Adams, Krzysztof Penderecki, Richard Wernick, Christos Hatzis, T. Patrick Carrabré and Randolph Peters. He was also a member of the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble from 2010-2012. Peters is the First Prize Winner of the 2015 Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Competition, the First Prize Winner of the 2014 WMC Doris McClellan Competition, and also wishes to acknowledge the support of the Sylva Gelber Foundation and the Manitoba Arts Council. Peters plays on a ca. 1869 J.B. Vuillaume Violin and Vuillaume model bow, on generous loan from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.

Soloist with I Medici di McGill Orchestra:
Ernest Chausson: Poeme
Benefit Concert for Quebec Parkinson Network, April 1, 2017