About Joshua Burgos

Joshua Burgos, Ph.D., is General Studies Teacher at Yeshiva and Mesivta of Greater Philadelphia and Chief Editor of Music & Musical Performance: An International Journal. He is a Board of Regents Fellow Alumnus of the SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program.

Dr. Burgos was Lecturer of Music Education at the University of New Hampshire and Doctoral Scholar Fellow and Research Associate at Louisiana State University. Burgos earned his doctorate at LSU with a specialty in elementary education and string pedagogy. His dissertation is a teacher research and self-study that bridges gaps between educational research and classroom teaching.

Joshua traces his love of learning back to the viola. He made his solo debut at age nineteen, performing a viola transcription of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3 at the Kimmel Center’s Marian Anderson Hall. He also performed as a soloist with the chamber choirs of the University of New Hampshire (2025, ‘24) and Montgomery County Community College (2019, ‘11), and as chamber orchestral violist at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Delaware, among other venues. 

His students have gone on to the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, All-City Philadelphia Music Program, Girard Music Academy, universities and yeshivas throughout the country, and festivals including Curtis Summerfest, Interharmony International Music Festival, and the Lake Placid Institute Chamber Music Festival.

Joshua Burgos grew up in Abington, PA, and began music studies at age twelve. He studied classical music with Monique Johnson and Victoria Voronyansky, and later with Dr. Elias Goldstein and Espen Lilleslåtten. 

Joshua Burgos plays on a viola made by Johann Georg Hellmer (b. 1687) and a viola bow made by Pierre Grunberger (b. 1955).