1. Joshua David Bell was born on December 9,1967 and is an American violinist and conductor.
32 Facts About Joshua Bell
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Joshua Bell is currently music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
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Joshua Bell's father was of Scottish descent and his mother was Jewish.
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Joshua Bell's parents got a scaled-to-size violin for him when he was five and started giving him lessons.
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Joshua Bell took to the instrument but had an otherwise normal Indiana childhood, playing video games and excelling at sports, especially tennis and bowling.
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Joshua Bell placed in a national tennis tournament at age ten.
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Joshua Bell's second was Mimi Zweig, and his third the violinist and pedagog Josef Gingold, who accepted Bell as a student after his parents assured him that they were not interested in pushing their son to be a star but simply wanted him to have the best teacher for his abilities.
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At age 14, Joshua Bell appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti.
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Joshua Bell studied violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and graduated from Bloomington High School North in 1984.
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In 1989 Joshua Bell received an Artist Diploma in violin performance from Indiana University.
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Joshua Bell has been named an "Indiana Living Legend" and received the Indiana Governor's Arts Award.
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Joshua Bell made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1985, at age 17, with the St Louis Symphony.
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Joshua Bell has since performed with many of the world's major orchestras and conductors.
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Nicholas Maw's violin concerto is dedicated to Joshua Bell, who premiered it in 1993 and won a Grammy Award for his recording.
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Joshua Bell performed the solo part on John Corigliano's Oscar-winning soundtrack to the film The Red Violin and was featured in Ladies in Lavender.
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Joshua Bell appeared in the movie Music of the Heart, with other violinists.
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Joshua Bell's instrument is the Gibson ex Huberman, a Stradivarius made in 1713 during what is known as Stradivari's "Golden Era".
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Joshua Bell had played the violin; its owner at the time, violinist Norbert Brainin, jokingly told him that it could be his for $4 million.
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Joshua Bell learned that the violin was in London and about to be sold to a German industrialist to become part of a collection.
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Joshua Bell played the violin at the Proms that same evening.
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Joshua Bell later sold his previous violin, the Tom Taylor Stradivarius, for a little more than $2 million and bought the Gibson ex Huberman for a little under the $4 million asking price.
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Joshua Bell's first recording with the Gibson ex Huberman was Romance of the Violin for Sony Classical Records in 2003.
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Joshua Bell served as artistic partner for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 2004 until 2007, and as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
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Joshua Bell serves on the artists' selection committee for the Kennedy Center Honors and is an adjunct associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Joshua Bell won the Avery Fisher Prize on April 10,2007, at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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On May 3,2007, Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music announced that Joshua Bell had joined the faculty as a senior lecturer.
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In 2008, Joshua Bell received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Joshua Bell has recorded commercially with the ASMF for the Sony Classical label.
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In 2013, Joshua Bell accompanied Scarlett Johansson in the song "Before My Time".
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Joshua Bell played himself in three episodes of Mozart in the Jungle in 2014,2015, and 2016.
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Joshua Bell appeared as himself in episode 8 of the 2017 Netflix original series Julie's Greenroom.
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On October 5,2019, Joshua Bell married opera singer Larisa Martinez at their home in Mount Kisco, New York.