Josh Fink is a musician and educator with an array of interests and a bad habit of starting bands. Josh has performed with and arranged music for Yo-Yo Ma and Hilary Hahn, played piano with Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), synthesizers with Nate Brenner (tUnE-yArDs), mandolin with Peter Ostroushko (A Prairie Home Companion), cello with rapper Serengeti, electric bass with Kirk Johnson (Prince), and upright bass with WHY?, The Gentlemen of NUCO, and Jason Seed. Josh has worked extensively as a composer and teaching artist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked on community projects initiated by Yo-Yo Ma, Riccardo Muti, and Carnegie Hall.
A passionate teacher, Josh has taught hundreds of young musicians and is currently the director of l'Ensemble de Violoncelles de Montréal, a full scholarship cello program. He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University while playing in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Josh is deeply appreciative and grateful to his teachers who had a profound impact upon him: Hans Jensen, Adi Yeshaya, Aditya Verma, Vasudevan Namboodiri, Vince Lee, Peter Lloyd, Daxun Zhang, and Joel Quarrington.
Listen to Josh's bands here in which he was a co-songwriter, arranger, bassist, and/or multi-instrumentalist: Josh and Corey, Baby Cleo, Lazy Heart, The Gentlemen of NUCO, Zamin.