Carnegie Hall

With a career that has spanned almost four decades, Grammy Award–winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era. Having performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, Mr. Bell continues to maintain engagements as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and conductor, while serving as music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

Highlights of Mr. Bell’s 2022–2023 season include leading the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on tour in South America to São Paulo, Bogotá, and Montevideo, as well as to Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. He appears in guest performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre national de France, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and Franz Schubert Filharmonia; in addition, he tours Europe with pianist Peter Dugan. In the US, Mr. Bell performs with the New York Philharmonic; the San Francisco, Houston, and New Jersey symphonies; and the Pittsburgh and Baltimore symphony orchestras.

Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Mr. Bell began studying the violin at age four, and at age 12 he began studies with his mentor, Josef Gingold. At age 14, he debuted with Riccardo Muti and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and he made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. At age 18, Mr. Bell signed with his first label, London Decca, and received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He was named Musical America’s 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year and a 2007 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, received the 2007 Avery Fisher Prize, and has been nominated for six Grammy Awards. He received the 2003 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award, and a Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1991 from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. In 2000, he was named an “Indiana Living Legend.”

Mr. Bell has performed for three American presidents and the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He participated in former president Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’s first cultural mission to Cuba, joining Cuban and American musicians in 2017 for an Emmy-nominated special on PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center titled Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, which celebrated renewed cultural diplomacy between Cuba and the United States.

Grammy Award–winning pianist and Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Daniil Trifonov is a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer, whose performances—combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth—are a perpetual source of wonder to audiences and critics alike. With Transcendental, the Liszt collection that marked his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, he won the Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo Album of 2018.

In fall 2022, Mr. Trifonov headlined the season-opening galas of Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Hall with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Later in the season, he returned to the Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra and as the last stop of an extensive North American recital tour. Other highlights from the 2022–2023 season include concerts with the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra; season-long residencies with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Radio France; tours with the Orchestre National de France and London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; a chamber collaboration with Stefan Jackiw and Alisa Weilerstein at New York City’s 92nd Street Y; and the release of a new deluxe CD and Blu-Ray edition of his best-selling double album Bach: The Art of Life.

Mr. Trifonov’s discography on Deutsche Grammophon includes a live recording of his Carnegie Hall recital debut; Chopin Evocations; and three volumes of Rachmaninoff works with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, one of which received a 2021 Grammy nomination and another named BBC Music’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year.

During the 2010–2011 season, Mr. Trifonov won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions: Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.