Artist-in-Residence of Iceland Symphony Orchestra for the 2023/24 season, Josefowicz performs Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto with Daníel Bjarnason and Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with Eva Ollikainen and presents a solo recital at Harpa Hall. Elsewhere, Josefowicz’s season includes engagements with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Musikkollegium Winterthur, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Lahti, Milwaukee, Taipei, and Antwerp symphony orchestras. Josefowicz also presents the world premiere of Jüri Reinvere’s Concerto for Violin and Harp alongside Trina Struble and the Cleveland Orchestra, and tours Germany and Austria with Junge Deutsche Philharmonie with concerts in Berlin, Vienna, and Dresden.

Highlights of recent seasons include appearances with Berliner Philharmoniker; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Royal Concertgebouworkest; Konzerthausorchester Berlin; Dresden Philharmonie, the Oslo, Helsinki, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras; NDR Elbphilharmonie; the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco symphony orchestras; and the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, working with conductors at the highest level, including Matthias Pintscher, John Storgårds, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Louis Langrée, Hannu Lintu, and John Adams.

Josefowicz enjoyed a close working relationship with the late Oliver Knussen, performing various concerti, including his violin concerto, together over 30 times. Other premieres have included Matthias Pintscher’s Assonanza with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, John Adams’ Scheherazade.2 with the New York Philharmonic, Luca Francesconi’s Duende—The Dark Notes with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Steven Mackey’s Beautiful Passing with the BBC Philharmonic.

Together with John Novacek, with whom she has enjoyed a close collaboration since 1985, Josefowicz has performed recitals at world-renowned venues such as New York’s Zankel Hall and Park Avenue Armory; Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress; and London’s Wigmore Hall, as well as in Reykjavík, Trento, Bilbao, and Chicago. This season their collaboration continues with recitals in California, appearing at Festival Mozaic, UC Santa Barbara, San Francisco Performances, and in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Colburn Celebrity Recital series.

Josefowicz has released several recordings, notably for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips/Universal, and Warner Classics, and was featured on Touch Press’ acclaimed iPad app The Orchestra. Her latest recording, released in 2019, features Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu. She has received Grammy nominations for her recordings of Scheherazade.2 with the St. Louis Symphony conducted by David Robertson and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.

In recognition of her outstanding achievement and excellence in music, Josefowicz won the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize and was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008, joining prominent scientists, writers, and musicians who have made unique contributions to contemporary life.