Violin
Joshua Bell
With a career spanning almost four decades, Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, and regularly appears as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor, and as music director of London’s Academy of St Martin in the Fields. In 2025, he was awarded an honorary commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in 1991 as a Shenson Young Artist.
This season, following his world-premiere recording of Thomas de Hartmann’s violin concerto, Bell performs the work at the BBC Proms, New York Philharmonic, and during his season-long tenure as a Toronto Symphony Spotlight Artist. He also leads extensive US and European tours with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields; makes his first appearances as the New Jersey Symphony’s inaugural principal guest conductor; and joins Steven Isserlis and Evgeny Kissin for trio programs in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Prague.
Bell has been nominated for six Grammy Awards, named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, selected as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, recognized with the Avery Fisher Prize, and honored as an “Indiana Living Legend.” His many collaborators include Emanuel Ax, Chris Botti, Chick Corea, Renée Fleming, Josh Groban, Lang Lang, Dave Matthews, Anoushka Shankar, Regina Spektor, Sting, and Daniil Trifonov. Bell has performed for three American presidents and the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. After participating in Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ first cultural mission to Cuba, he headlined the subsequent Emmy-nominated PBS Live from Lincoln Center special. Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.
Joshua Bell appears by arrangement with Park Avenue Artists and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. He records exclusively for Sony Classical—a Masterworks label. The position of the music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields is generously supported by the Berry Charitable Foundation.
This season, following his world-premiere recording of Thomas de Hartmann’s violin concerto, Bell performs the work at the BBC Proms, New York Philharmonic, and during his season-long tenure as a Toronto Symphony Spotlight Artist. He also leads extensive US and European tours with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields; makes his first appearances as the New Jersey Symphony’s inaugural principal guest conductor; and joins Steven Isserlis and Evgeny Kissin for trio programs in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Prague.
Bell has been nominated for six Grammy Awards, named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, selected as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, recognized with the Avery Fisher Prize, and honored as an “Indiana Living Legend.” His many collaborators include Emanuel Ax, Chris Botti, Chick Corea, Renée Fleming, Josh Groban, Lang Lang, Dave Matthews, Anoushka Shankar, Regina Spektor, Sting, and Daniil Trifonov. Bell has performed for three American presidents and the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. After participating in Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ first cultural mission to Cuba, he headlined the subsequent Emmy-nominated PBS Live from Lincoln Center special. Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.
Joshua Bell appears by arrangement with Park Avenue Artists and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. He records exclusively for Sony Classical—a Masterworks label. The position of the music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields is generously supported by the Berry Charitable Foundation.
