With a career spanning almost four decades, GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era. Bell has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world and continues to maintain engagements as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor and as the Music Director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Highlights from the 2023-24 season include an international tour of his newly commissioned project, The Elements, a six-movement violin concerto from five different composers, and the release of his album Butterfly Lovers with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra. Bell’s highlights for the 2024-25 season include the release of two new albums: Thomas De Hartmann Rediscovered, featuring the World Premiere recording of Ukrainian composer Thomas De Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, and an album of Mendelssohn piano trios, which Bell recorded with longtime friends and collaborators Jeremy Denk and Steven Isserlis.
At age 18, Bell received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the years following, Bell has been nominated for six GRAMMY® awards, named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, deemed a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, and received the Avery Fisher Prize. Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.
Website: https://joshuabell.com/