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, 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 Spotlight Artist, respectively. He also leads extensive U.S. 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 Supreme Court of the United States. After participating in former 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.