Joyce Osborn attended Eastman School of Music as a violin student of Francis Tursi, University of Alabama as a student of Ottakar Cadek, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She became a member of the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra, later returned to America, and received a Master of Music Degree from the Yale School of Music where she studied with Joseph Fuchs, and occasionally with his violist sister, Lillian Fuchs.  

A member of American String Teachers Association, she was on the LA-ASTA Board for 20 years, and originated and edited the LA-ASTA newsletter, “String Along” for ten years. 

She has held many local and state positions in Music Teachers’ Association of CA, including member of the State Board.