Performance Year: 2025
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.
Bell’s highlights in the 2023-24 season included an international tour of his newly-commissioned project, The Elements, featuring works representing each of the five elements by renowned composers, including Jake Heggie (Fire), Jennifer Higdon (Air), Edgar Meyer (Water), Jessie Montgomery (Space), and Kevin Puts (Earth). The work received its premiere performances with the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
Bell also released a new album on Sony Classical, Butterfly Lovers, in the summer of 2023. Additionally, he led the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on tour in Australia and throughout the United States and appeared as artist-in-residence with the NDR Elbphilharmonie, and as guest artist with the New Jersey Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and more.
