Biography
Joshua Winograde was Senior Director of Artistic Planning and Artistic Programs at LA Opera (2007–2017 and 2018-2023), a position central to main-stage casting and artistic planning for LA Opera’s primary subscription season, as well as their Off Grand series of experimental events in alternate venues and On Now digital and streaming programming. He was also a creator and the director of LA Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. At LA Opera he also oversaw many elements of their Artist In Residency program (Matthew Aucoin 2017-2020, Russell Thomas 2021-2024), including serving as a co-director of the Russell Thomas HBCU Opera Career Comprehensive, an online course of vocal training and industry insight for current and recent students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Mr. Winograde spent the 2017-2018 season working at the Metropolitan Opera where he was Director of the National Council Auditions (The Met Competition) and also Associate Artistic Administrator responsible for vocal casting.
Mr. Winograde is currently also the Casting Consultant for the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard SummerScape and Music Festival, and The Orchestra Now (TON). He was also on the board of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, where he was the head juror for their renowned annual awards and grants. Previously, he created and ran the Opera Studio at Wolf Trap Opera, and was the Assistant Administrative Director of The Juilliard School Department of Vocal Arts, also his alma mater.
Mr. Winograde has served on many competition juries, including the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Awards, the Metropolitan Opera Competition (now Laffont), the Innsbruck Alte Musik Festival Cesti Competition, the Galina Vishnevskaya International Competition in Moscow, the International Singers Fair in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, among many others.
Before working behind the scenes, Mr. Winograde earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from The Juilliard School, and was then a Young Artist in the world-renowned Houston Grand Opera Studio (now Butler Studio); he then sang professionally with Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the St. Louis Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra and American Symphony Orchestra, among many others.
