Joshua Bell
About this Artist
With a career spanning almost four decades, Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, CBE, is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. He has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world and regularly appears as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and conductor and as the 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.
Following his world premiere recording of Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, Bell gives the work’s UK, North American, and Canadian premieres at London’s BBC Proms, with the New York Philharmonic, and during his season-long tenure as a Toronto Symphony Orchestra Spotlight Artist, respectively. 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, tours Asia with Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, 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 US Supreme Court. After participating in then-President 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.