Josa Gerhard (violin/viola), born in Cologne, studied violin at the Berlin University of the Arts with Rainer Kimstedt and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main with Priya Mitchell.
In addition to his instrumental training, he worked on interdisciplinary and experimental music theater formats. At the graduate school of the UdK Berlin, he developed work on the interface between audio art and gaming as part of a scholarship. He is a founding member of the Invisible Playground network.
As a violinist, Josa Gerhard works in the fields of chamber music, orchestra and musical theater. He played, among others, at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Munich Opera Festival, the National Theater Mannheim, the Schauspielhaus Hannover, in the European Union Chamber Orchestra and in the KlangVerwaltung Munich orchestra. He is a member of the Berlin Oriel Quartet. He owes further musical inspiration to his work with the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra as well as other jazz ensembles, Balkan Roma musicians and the tango violinist Fernando Suarez Paz, who played in the Astor Piazzolla Quintet.
In May 2018, Josa Gerhard, together with Sebastian Quack, curated the Playsonic Festival in Frankfurt, a cooperation project with the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Ensemble Modern.
