With a career spanning nearly four decades, GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era. Bell has performed with virtually all of the world's major orchestras and continues to maintain engagements as a soloist, chamber musician, Conductor orchestra and as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields' music Conductor .

Highlights of Bell's 2023-24 season include an international tour of his newly commissioned project, The Elements, featuring works by renowned living composers. The work will be premiered with the Elbphilharmonie of Hamburg, Filarmonica della Scala of Hong Kong, Filarmonica della Scala of New York, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Bell will also lead the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on tour to Australia and the United States. This season he will be a guest of the NDR Elbphilharmonie and the New Jersey Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Philadelphia Orchestra and others.

Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Bell began playing the violin at age 4 and at 12 began studying with his mentor, Josef Gingold. At age 14, Bell made her debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and at 17 she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the St. Louis Symphony. At 18, Bell signed with his first label, Decca of London, and received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the decades since, Bell has been nominated for six GRAMMY® awards, was named "Instrumentalist of the Year" by Musical America, "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum and received the Avery Fisher Prize. He also received the Indiana Governor's Award for the Arts in 2003 and was named an Indiana Living Legend in 2000.

Bell has performed for three U.S. presidents and Supreme Court justices. Bell also participated in President Barack Obama's Arts and Humanities Committee mission to Cuba, performing in an Emmy-nominated PBS Live from Lincoln Center special; Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, celebrating the renewed diplomacy between Cuba and the United States.

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