Bell’s interests range from repertoire hallmarks to commissioned works, including
Nicholas Maw’s Violin Concerto, for which Bell received a Grammy® award.
Committed to expanding music’s cultural impact, Bell has collaborated with peers
including Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, Frankie Moreno, and Josh
Groban. In Spring 2019, Bell joins cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk for a
ten-city American trio tour.
festivals and the New York Philharmonic.
An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Bell has recorded over 40 albums garnering
Grammy®, Mercury®, Gramophone and ECHO Klassik awards. Sony Classical’s June
2018 release, with Bell and the Academy, features Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy and G
minor Violin Concerto.
In 2007, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post story, on Bell performing incognito
in a Washington, D.C. metro station, sparked a conversation regarding artistic
reception in context. It inspired Kathy Stinson’s 2013 children’s book, The Man With
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