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Joshua Bell
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After winning the Seventeen Magazine/General Motors Competition at age 14, Joshua Bell, a native of Bloomington, Indiana, made his debut as a violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Riccardo Muti. He then appeared at Carnegie Hall, won an Avery Fisher Career Grant and made his first recordings. Bell has since performed with the world’s leading symphony orchestras and conductors.
He won a Grammy Award for his Sony Classical recording of a Nicholas Maw violin concerto and three other recordings in 2001, including Best Classical Crossover Album with David Zinman and the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite. He received an Oscar for his performance of the John Corigliano film score for The Red Violin.
Other recent recordings include Short Trip Home, Gershwin Fantasy, Listen to the Storyteller, the violin concertos of Jean Sibelius, and the violin concertos of Karl Goldmark. Bell teaches master classes at London’s Royal Academy of Music and serves as an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He plays an Antonio Stradivarius violin dated 1713, known as "Gibson ex Huberman."
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