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Achievements
Want to know Joshua's award and nominations.
Avery Fisher Artist Program Career Grant The career grants,
endowed by a gift to Lincoln Center from Avery Fisher in 1974, are
intended to recognize and support instrumentalists with the
potential for a solo career. Recipients are selected by a
committee of musicians and administrators drawn from Lincoln
Centerís arts groups. Josh received this prestigious award in
1986.
Distinguished Alumni Service AwardIndiana University's
highest accolade reserved solely for its alumni, this award
provides recognition for outstanding achievements by the men and
women of Indiana University. Awardees are outstanding in their
chosen field of endeavor and made significant contributions
benefiting their community, state, nation, or university. This
award was bestowed on Josh in 1991, only 2 years after he obtained
his degree.
Echo Klassik AwardIn 2001, Josh was awarded an Echo Klassik
Award for his recording of the Sibelius %26 Goldmark Violin
Concertos. The Best Concerto Recording award was presented to Josh
by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie. He performed at the Gala awards
ceremony, which was held at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden.
Emmy(R) AwardThe National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences encourages excellence within the national television
industry with the Emmy Awards. In 2002, Joshua Bell: West Side
Story Suite from Central Park received an Emmy Nomination for Best
Classical Music-Dance Program.
Grammy(R) Award The recording industry's most prestigious
award, the GRAMMY, is presented annually by the Recording Academy.
A GRAMMY is awarded by the Recording Academy's voting membership
to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences. It is
truly a peer honor, awarded by and to artists and technical
professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or
chart positions. The annual GRAMMY Awards presentation brings
together thousands of creative and technical professionals in the
recording industry from all over the world.
Josh's first recording for Sony Classical, Gershwin Fantasy, was
nominated for Best Classical Crossover Album for the 41st Grammy
Awards.
The following year, Josh hooked up with longtime friend, bassist
and composer Edgar Meyer and legendary bluegrass musicians Sam
Bush and Mike Marshall to create Short Trip Home. The album
received a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album
and the quartet performed on the 42nd Grammy Awards telecast.
Josh could not attend the 43rd Grammy(R) Awards, but his recording
of Nicholas Maw's Violin Concerto won the Grammy(R) for Best
Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
Josh was the only classical performer on the 44th Grammy(R)
Awards, where his West Side Story Suite recording was nominated
for Best Classical Crossover Album and won a Grammy(R) for Best
Engineered Album, Classical.
Collaborations with other Sony Classical artists produced Grammy(R)
Awards for Best Spoken Word Album for Children (Wynton Marsalisí
Listen to the Storyteller), Best Classical Crossover Album (Bela
Fleck's Perpetual Motion) and Best Instrumental Arrangement
(Claude Debussy's "Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum" from Children's
Corner on BČla Fleck's Perpetual Motion).
Gramophone Award
The Gramophone Awards are widely regarded as the most important
and influential classical music awards in the world. Gramophone
critics select nominees from a pool of more than 2,000 reviews
that have appeared in the magazine throughout the year and choose
the winners after a two-round balloting process. In 1998, Josh's
recording of the Barber %26 Walton Violin Concertos and Bloch's
Baal Shem won the Concerto award.
Indiana Living Legend
Each year, the Indiana Historical Society recognizes a select
group of Hoosiers for their significant contributions to the state
and society. In 2000, Josh received this award and became part of
a group of distinguished honorees that includes Larry Bird, David
Letterman, Senator Richard Lugar, Jane Pauley, Kurt Vonnegut and
John Wooden.
Mercury Music Prize
The annual Mercury Music Prize aims to celebrate the best in
British music. The Prize is open to all types of music including
pop, rock, dance, folk, jazz and contemporary classical. Josh's
recording of British composer Nicholas Maw's Violin Concerto
captured a prize for the Classical Album of the Year in 2000.
Oscar(R)
Composer John Corigliano won an Oscar for Best Original Score for
The Red Violin. In his acceptance speech, Corigliano noted the
differences between the film industry and the classical music
community. He then went on to thank Josh:
"...then you have to go to the voice of the violin and say, you
know, you could write all the notes you want, but if someone
doesn't play them like a god, they'll never sound that way... and
Joshua Bell, the great violinist, played them like a god. Thank
you, Josh."
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