Joshua Bell Plays Brahms
Friday March 30 (Friday (07:30 PM)
Saturday (08:00 PM))
First Baptist Church, New Orleans
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
PROGRAM:
Hindemith: Concerto Music for Strings and Brass
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Joshua Bell has enchanted audiences worldwide with his breathtaking virtuosity and tone of rare beauty. His restless curiosity and multifaceted musical interests have taken him in exciting new directions which have earned him the rare title of “classical music superstar.” Often referred to as the poet of the violin, Bell is the recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize and is the newly named Music Director of The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Bell first came to national attention at the age of 14 in a highly acclaimed orchestral debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra. His Carnegie Hall debut and a recording contract further confirmed his presence in the music world. Today he is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestra leader and composer who performs his own cadenzas to several of the major concerto repertoire. “Bell, Gramophone stated simply, is dazzling.”
Bell’s 2011 festival appearances include Ravinia, Tanglewood, Verbier and Mostly Mozart. He performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal, Dallas, Colorado, Atlanta, San Francisco and National Symphony orchestras. A Carnegie Hall recital, appearances with the New York Philharmonic and European tours conclude 2011.
2012 highlights include a 15-city US tour with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and a North American recital tour with pianist Sam Haywood. In Europe, Bell will tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski and in recital with Jeremy Denk in cities to include London, Paris and Berlin.
An exclusive Sony Classical artist, French Impressions, his new album of French sonatas with Jeremy Denk will be released in January, 2012.
Since his first LP recording at 18, Bell has recorded more than 36 CDs garnering Mercury, Grammy, Gramophone and Echo Klassik Awards. Recent releases include At Home With Friends, the Defiance soundtrack, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and The Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic. He has recorded critically acclaimed performances of Sibelius and Goldmark and the Beethoven and Mendelssohn concertos both featuring his own cadenzas; and the Oscar winning soundtrack, The Red Violin.
Bell received his first violin at four and by age 12 was serious about the instrument thanks to violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold.
Bell performs on the 1713 Gibson ex Huberman Stradivarius.
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