Joshua Henderson, of Nashville, Tennessee, is a Masters student of Prof. Naoko Tanaka in Violin Performance at NYU Steinhardt, where he is a recipient of a Walter Reinhold scholarship. He graduated from The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, at age 19, where he was a student of Prof. Kurt Sassmannshaus. Joshua has performed as soloist with the Starling Chamber Orchestra, Accent X Orchestra, CCM Showcase Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and with the China Performing-Arts Broadcasting Troupe Orchestra at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. He has given the world premier of Dr. Trevor Weston's "The People Could Fly", for solo violin and orchestra, in addition to giving the Kennedy Center Premier of the work on the Millennium Stage concert series. Before entering the Cincinnati Conservatory, where he served as concertmaster of the Concert Orchestra, Joshua served as concertmaster of both the Curb Youth Symphony in Nashville and the Augusta (Georgia) Youth Orchestra.

Joshua has studied with Prof. Sassmannshaus and Naoko Tanaka at the Aspen Music Festival and school, and has also attended the Great Wall International Music Festival in Beijing, China. He was a Myra Jackson Blair scholarship student of Prof. Christian Teal at Vanderbilt University (pre-college division), and has studied chamber music with members of the Alexander, American, Blair, Cleveland, and La Salle Quartets.