Originally from the Netherlands, Jos began playing the violin when she was four years old. She has lived in Australia since 2021 and has worked with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. In October 2024 Jos joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as their Associate Principal Second Violin and since 2025 is one of the violin teachers at Monash University.
Before her relocation to Australia, she was a member of the Staatskapelle Berlin Orchestra Academy. Jos has a broad range of orchestral experience playing with a variety of orchestras such as the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and has also worked as acting Second Concertmaster of the Philharmonisches Orchester Landestheater Coburg.
As part of her education she studied under Thijs Kramer, Ilya Grubert (Bachelor), Prof. Sebastian Hamann (Master) and Prof. Eberhard Feltz (string quartet). During her Bachelor and Master studies in the Netherlands and Germany Jos developed a keen passion for chamber music and currently is one of the violinist of the Partridge String Quartet.
Jos plays a violin made for her in 2022 by the French luthier Patrick Robin and plays on a Sartory bow (Paris, c.1920).
