Josie Davis, violin

Meet Josie

Josie first appeared on Show 215 when she was 18 years-old and returned to From the Top on Show 379 in 2019. She went on to co-host Show 462 in 2025.

Josie Davis received her undergraduate degrees in violin and sociology at Oberlin College and Conservatory where she was a student of David Bowlin, and her Ed.M from Harvard University. She has performed in a wide-range of venues from Carnegie Hall to the Monte Music Festival in India and has appeared with her sister, Sophie, on NPR’s From the Top. She actively explores ways to share classical music in new contexts and has performed chamber music with Emanuel Ax in a taco shop, played solo Bach for Chris Thile, and shared music on a mountaintop in India. Her teaching has brought her to Panama, India and Community MusicWorks in Rhode Island where she completed a two-year Fellowship. In past summers, she has studied at the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, Bowdoin International Music Festival and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. As a violinist, educator and arts administrator, Josie is interested in how the arts can be used as a form of cultural empowerment to build bridges and strengthen communities. She is a violinist and artistic advisor with Halcyon, an artist collective based in Midcoast Maine, and the Executive Director of Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School.