Joshua Bell Program

The Noorda Center for the Performing Arts

April 21, 2026 7:30 p.m.

Concert Hall

JOSHUA BELL

Violin

Piano

Violin Sonata in A Major “Grand Duo” Franz Schubert (b.

C Minor Edvard Grieg

-Intermission-

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major Sergei Prokofiev (b. 1891)

Violin Sonata No. 2 Maurice Ravel (b. 1875)

Management for Joshua Bell: Park Avenue Artists

Booking for Joshua Bell: Primo Artists

Management for Shai Wosner: Opus 3 Artists

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

JOSHUA BELL

With a career spanning almost four decades, Grammy Awardwinning violinist Joshua Bell CBE is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. He has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, and regularly appears as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor, and as the Music Director of London’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Bell has been nominated for six Grammy awards, named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, made an honorary Commander of the British Empire, selected as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, recognized with the Avery Fisher Prize, and honored as an “Indiana Living Legend.”

SHAI WOSNER

Pianist Shai Wosner has attracted international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity, and creative insight. This season, he makes solo appearances with Mason Bates’s Piano Concerto in Italy and Vijay Iyer’s ‘Handmade Universe’ with East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) in Seattle. Other highlights include a program with the JACK Quartet at the Frick Collection in New York, the 3 Brahms Sonatas with Pinchas Zukerman, and a U.S. tour with Joshua Bell. Shai’s chamber arrangements of various Beethoven Symphonies have been premiered and toured by Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma, and are available in GRAMMY-nominated recordings released by Sony Classical. His own recordings for Onyx Classics range from Schubert sonatas, to chamber works by Bartók and Kurtág, to concerti by Haydn and Ligeti. He has received Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a BorlettiBuitoni Trust Award.