Joshua Gurwitz

Tenor | Administrative Director
Based in Albany, NY, Joshua Gurwitz is a lyric tenor who has performed a wide variety of operatic and music theater roles. In addition, Mr. Gurwitz has been a featured soloist in an eclectic range of concert repertoire from J. S. Bach’s Christ Lag in Todesbanden to Reena Esmail’s pioneering new work, This Love Between Us. In 2018, Mr. Gurwitz was awarded first prize in the Advanced Division of the Joel Dolven Vocal Awards, a competition run by the Mendelssohn Club of Albany, NY. He has also won honors in 2011, 2012, and 2014 at the Art Song Festival held by the Eastern New York chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Most recently, Mr. Gurwitz sang the Ernesto in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, and was tenor soloist in two of J. S. Bach's seminal Christmas Works, the Christmas Oratorio and the Magnificat. 

For the 2025 season, Mr. Gurwitz is excited to be making his debut with the Oratorio Society of Queens in their 2025 spring concert – Amadeus to Americana and a role debut as Nemorino in Donizetti’s L'Elisir d'Amore at the Winter Harbor Music Festival. Mr. Gurwitz is a graduate of the vocal performance programs at the University at Albany, SUNY and the Aaron Copland School of Music, CUNY.