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Joshua Bell - Violin, Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 22-Aug-2025 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 05-Nov-2024 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 04-Nov-2024 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 03-Nov-2024 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 02-Nov-2024 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 01-Nov-2024 / 19:30

Royal Festival Hall, 18-Apr-2024 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 16-Apr-2024 / 19:30

Favourite pieces

Fauré's Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 performed in 2019 (March) and 2016 (May).

Janáček's Violin Sonata performed in 2015 (May, 20) and 2014 (April).

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto performed in 2019 (November, 12) and 2014 (October).

Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No 2 in D major Op 94a performed in 2019 (February) and 2012 (December).

Schubert's Fantasy in C D934 performed in 2024 (February) and 2018 (March).

Strauss's Violin Sonata in E flat major Op. 18 performed in 2018 (March) and 2012 (December).

Eugène Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata in D minor 'Ballade' Op. 27 No. 3 performed in 2017 (March).

Wigmore Hall, 28-Feb-2024 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Shai Wosner

  • Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100
  • Tchaikovsky: Méditation and Mélodie from Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op. 42
  • Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy's Kiss

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 26-Jan-2023 / 19:30

  • Schumann: Carnaval Op.9 (arr. Ravel, surviving fragments)
  • Paganini: Violin Concerto No.1 (with cadenza by Joshua Bell)
  • Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Joshua Bell - Director, violin

Wigmore Hall, 30-Oct-2022 / 19:30

  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2
  • Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121
  • Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
  • Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1 BB94a
  • Peter Dugan - Piano

Royal Festival Hall, 14-May-2022 / 19:30

  • Dvořák: Violin Concerto
  • Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi - Conductor

Wigmore Hall, 25-Mar-2022 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Shai Wosner

  • Schubert: Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2
  • Ernest Bloch: Baal Shem
  • Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G
  • Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. posth. (arranged by Nathan Milstein)

Favourite Concertos

Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (27 mins, arr. Leonid Desyatnikov) performed twice on the 25th of August 2021 at the Royal Albert Hall and on the 20th of January 2020 at the Cadogan Hall.

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto performed on the 19th of January 2019 at the Cadogan Hall and on the 3rd of April 2016 with the BBC Philharmonic being conducted by Mark Wigglesworth at the Royal Albert Hall.

Royal Albert Hall, 25-Aug-2021 (Two performances)

  • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (37 mins)
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Joshua Bell - Director & violin

Cadogan Hall, 20-Jan-2020 / 19:30

  • Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor
  • Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, ‘Death and the Maiden’ (arr. Mahler)
  • Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Joshua Bell - Director & violin

Wigmore Hall, 15-Nov-2019 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Divertimento in B flat K287
  • Borodin: String Sextet in D minor
  • Dvořák: String Sextet in A Op. 48
  • Joshua Bell - Violin
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 12-Nov-2019 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Symphony No.25
  • Sally Beamish: Hover (UK premiere)
  • Beethoven: Symphony No.5
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Joshua Bell - Director, violin

Joshua Bell's concerts, unfortunately, cancelled due to the pandemic.

On the 11th of April 2021 at the Royal Festival Hall.

On the 3rd of November 2020 with Jeremy Denk at the Wigmore Hall.

On the 2nd of November 2020 with Jeremy Denk and Steven Isserlis at the Wigmore Hall.

On the 23rd of April 2020 at the Wigmore Hall.

Mr. Bell performed:

  • > Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jakub Hrůša on the 20th of July 2019 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Wigmore Hall, 23-Mar-2019 / 19:30

  • Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63

Barbican Hall, 27-Feb-2019 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Sam Haywood

  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 4 Op 23
  • Grieg: Violin Sonata No 2 in G major Op 13

Cadogan Hall, 19-Jan-2019 / 19:30

  • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 (Classical)
  • Barber:Adagio for Strings
  • Bizet: Symphony in C major
  • Joshua Bell - Director, violin
  • The Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Mr. Bell performed with Steven Isserlis at the Wigmore Hall on the 17th of December 2018.

Joshua Bell

  • > became, in 2011, the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields,
  • > received, in 2000, a Grammy Award for the recording of Nicholas Maw's Violin Concerto.

Wigmore Hall, 11-Nov-2018 / 19:30

Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber ensemble

  • Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat Op. 20
  • Enescu: String Octet in C Op. 7

Royal Albert Hall, 12-Aug-2018 / 16:00

  • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream – overture
  • Saint‐Saëns: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor
  • Frank Bridge: Lament
  • Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Joshua Bell - Director, violin

Wigmore Hall, 4-Mar-2018 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Sam Haywood

  • Mozart: Violin Sonata in B flat major K454

Cadogan Hall, 12-Jan-2018 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 15th and 17th of November 2017

Royal Albert Hall, 17-Aug-2017 / 18:30

Wigmore Hall, 25-Jul-2017 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 24-Jul-2017 / 19:30

Barbican Hall, 28-Mar-2017 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Sam Haywood

Cadogan Hall, 19-Jan-2017 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 10-May-2016 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Sam Haywood

Cadogan Hall, 22-Jan-2016 / 19:30

Mr. Bell played Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado at the Barbican Hall on the 28th of June 2015.

Wigmore Hall, 23-May-2015

Wigmore Hall, 20-May-2015

Wigmore Hall, 21-Nov-2014

Recital with pianist Alessio Bax

Cadogan Hall, 7-Oct-2014

Mr. Bell played Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the baton of Neville Marriner at the Royal Albert Hall on the 10th of August 2014.

Wigmore Hall, 5-Apr-2014

Cadogan Hall, 22-Jan-2014

Wigmore Hall, 11-Dec-2012

Recital with pianist Sam Haywood

He played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor on the 26th of August during the 1991 BBC Proms season.

He made his BBC Proms debut on the 2nd of August 1990 in a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major with Claus Peter Flor conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.