‘Mr. Bell doesn’t stand in anyone’s shadow.’
– The New York Times
JOSHUA BELL ANNOUNCES A RETURN TO AUSTRALIA IN 2024 FOR A SOLO CONCERT TOUR
JOSHUA BELL AUSTRALIAN TOUR – DECEMBER 2024
SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE DATES. ADELAIDE UKARIA DATES HAVE ALREADY SOLD OUT
In only his third career visit to Australia, the acclaimed Grammy award winning violinist Joshua Bell will return to Australia in 2024 with shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Whilst the UKARIA shows in Adelaide have already sold out (they were announced in October 2023), tickets for Sydney and Melbourne go on sale at 11.00am local time, Monday 4 December.
2 December Sydney City Recital Hall
3 December Sydney City Recital Hall
4 December Melbourne Melbourne Recital Centre
5 December Melbourne Melbourne Recital Centre
7 December Adelaide UKARIA – SOLD OUT –
8 December Adelaide UKARIA – SOLD OUT –
“Australia! Thrilled to be coming back to your shores in 2024 for this special tour. After a successful tour in October 2023 with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, i am looking forward to playing this exceptional programme solo.. see you again soon!” – Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell was recently in Australia in October 2023, performing with the prestigious Academy of St Martin in The Fields, in which he also serves as Musical Director. It was the Academy’s first visit in six years and featured a programme of popular violin concertos and classical repertoire from some of the greats including Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bach and Prokofiev. The Melbourne Age described the performance as a ‘memorable and immersive musical experience’ performed by one of the true great chamber orchestras of our time, whilst Bell’s solo Violin Concerto was a clear highlight. Limelight Magazine said of his performance. “Bell is a superb violinist – entirely without mannerism – and a fine conductor.”
With a career spanning almost four decades, GRAMMY Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era. Bell has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, and continues to maintain engagements as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor and as the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Bell has collaborated with peers including Renée Fleming, Chick Corea, Regina Spektor, Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, Anoushka Shankar, Frankie Moreno, Josh Groban, and Sting, among others. In 2019, Bell joined his long-time friends and musical partners, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk, for a ten-city American trio tour.
Bell has been nominated for six GRAMMY awards, was named ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ by Musical America, deemed a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum, received the Avery Fisher Prize, and was named an ‘Indiana Living Legend’ in 2000. He has performed for three American presidents and the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Bell also participated in President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ mission to Cuba on an Emmy-nominated PBS Live from Lincoln Center special; Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, celebrating renewed cultural diplomacy between Cuba and the United States.
Programme:
Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor, “Devil’s Trill”
Schubert: Fantasy in C Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 159, D. 934
Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
Wieniawski: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 15
“Bell is a superb violinist… The sooner he returns to Australia, the better” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Limelight
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sydney Morning Herald
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Age
JOSHUA BELL – 2024 AUSTRALIAN TOUR
With Peter Dugan, Piano
Presented by The Music House & Hey Dowling
2 & 3 December Sydney City Recital Hall cityrecitalhall.com
4 & 5 December Melbourne Melbourne Recital Centre melbourne recital.com.au
7 & 8 December Adelaide UKARIA – sold out –
