Josie first appeared on Show 215 when she was 18 years-old and returned to From the Top on Show 379 in 2019. She went on to co-host Show 462 in 2025.

Josie Davis received her undergraduate degrees in violin and sociology at Oberlin College and Conservatory where she was a student of David Bowlin, and her Ed.M from Harvard University. She has performed in a wide-range of venues from Carnegie Hall to the Monte Music Festival in India and has appeared with her sister, Sophie, on NPR’s From the Top. She actively explores ways to share classical music in new contexts and has performed chamber music with Emanuel Ax in a taco shop, played solo Bach for Chris Thile, and shared music on a mountaintop in India. Her teaching has brought her to Panama, India and Community MusicWorks in Rhode Island where she completed a two-year Fellowship. In past summers, she has studied at the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, Bowdoin International Music Festival and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. As a violinist, educator and arts administrator, Josie is interested in how the arts can be used as a form of cultural empowerment to build bridges and strengthen communities. She is a violinist and artistic advisor with Halcyon, an artist collective based in Midcoast Maine, and the Executive Director of Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School.

Sophie Davis first performed on Show 215 in Portland, Maine in 2010. She went on to co-host Show 462 in 2025.

Sophie Davis is a violinist, climate change artist, and the Artistic Director of Halcyon, an artist collective based in Midcoast Maine. Having grown up in Maine, she received degrees in violin performance and environmental studies from Oberlin College and Conservatory. Playing and sharing music are integral to Sophie’s creative and professional practice. She has participated in the Perlman Chamber Music Workshop, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Program, as a soloist with Oberlin’s Contemporary Music Ensemble, and with her sister, Josie, on NPR’s From the Top. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Symphony Hall, the Monte Music Festival in India, and with the Jordan National Orchestra (JOrchestra) in Amman, Jordan. In 2017-18, Sophie was awarded a Fulbright Grant to the South Pacific island nation of Samoa where she researched how music and the arts raise awareness of climate change. As a violinist, stop-motion animator, and core member of Halcyon, Sophie collaborates frequently with musicians, artists, activists, and scientists. Her creative practice combines the honesty of science and statistical fact with the emotions of film and music. Recent projects have led her to pursue coursework in stop-motion animation; research the internal documents of the Exxon Corporation; build a contact microphone to record the sounds of ice-out; and record humpback whale song aboard a tall ship in the Lesser Antilles. She is a 2024 National Arts Strategies ​Creative Community Fellow.