Joshua Bell is an American violinist, one of the most famous performers of our time, a superstar of classical music. Winner of many awards and prizes, including Grammy and Avery Fisher Prize.
Joshua Bell has been on the scene for over twenty years. The violinist’s virtuoso conquered the audience on all continents. He gives chamber concerts and performs with leading symphony orchestras of the world. He is called the "Living Legend of Indiana, " a "superstar of academic music." According to People, Joshua is one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world.
Facts from the biography
The future famous violinist was born in the winter of 1967 in the United States. His father was a psychologist and psychotherapist, professor emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington. Mom also devoted her life to psychology. Parents' favorite hobby was classical music. They instilled this love into their son.
Joshua began studying music at the age of four. For the first time, his mother noticed his interest when she saw that the boy pulled gum between the chairs and tables, as if they were strings, and tried to play them, portraying a musician. After that, his parents bought him a small violin and sent the child to music school.
But music was not Joshua's only hobby. He was actively involved in sports and even became the champion of the national tennis tournament.
While in the sports camp, the boy liked to listen to classical music before going to bed. Someone from his friends presented him with a cassette on which the performance of one of the most famous violinists J. Heifetz was recorded. Hearing the musician, Joshua was shocked by his performance. And then he decided that he wanted to become the same great violinist and perform on the stage of the best concert halls in the world.
Joshua began taking violin lessons from renowned music teacher and violinist Joseph Gingold. Parents for a long time had to convince Joseph to take his son to study. The teacher wanted to be sure that the boy himself chose the violin, no one forces him to make music by force. Making sure that Joshua really wants to learn how to play, Gingold took him to his students.
Bell continued his musical education at Indiana University, graduating in 1989. After that, Joshua went to New York, where he continued to professionally engage in music.
Creative way
When Bella was fourteen, he performed with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, captivating the audience with his violin playing. Subsequently, Bell performed with almost all the famous orchestras of the world. The young musician instantly gained popularity among the audience, touring the United States, and then to other countries.
At his concerts, Bell demonstrates a virtuoso performance of classical and modern music. In particular, he often plays compositions of Gershwin and Bernstein.
From the age of eighteen he has been collaborating with the Sony Classical studio, having recorded over four dozen CDs with works of classics and contemporary music. Bell also works with leading filmmakers to create movie soundtracks. In particular, he performed compositions for the paintings: The Red Violin, The Music of the Heart, Angels and Demons.
Bell is currently a professor and professor of music at the Royal Academy of Music and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bell plays his favorite instrument, the 1713 Stradivarius violin, known as The Gibson. The famous violinist Bronislaw Huberman, the founder of the Palestinian (later Israeli) symphony orchestra, performed the works on it.
