Two of the today’s most celebrated classical musicians—violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Jeremy Denk—unite to play a program of Mozart, Beethoven and more for Rockport Music’s 2024 Summer Gala.
PROGRAM
MOZART: Violin Sonata No. 18 in G Major, K. 301
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30
-Additional works to be announced from the stage
Joshua Bell, violin
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’s highlights in the 2023-24 season include an international tour of his newly commissioned project, The Elements, featuring works by renowned living composers. The work will receive its premiere performances with the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Bell will release his new album on Sony Classical, Butterfly Lovers, in summer 2023. He will also lead the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on tour in Australia and throughout the United States. He will appear as artist-in-residence this season with the NDR Elbphilharmonie, and as guest artist with the New Jersey Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Philadelphia Orchestra, and more.
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 the Emmy-nominated PBS Live from Lincoln Center special Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, celebrating renewed cultural diplomacy between Cuba and the United States.
Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.
Jeremy Denk, piano
Jeremy Denk is one America’s foremost pianists, hailed by The New York Times as an artist “you want to hear no matter what he performs.” Denk is also a New York Times bestselling author, winner of both the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has performed multiple times at Carnegie Hall and has worked with such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra. Recent highlights include his extensive performances of the Well-Tempered Klavier Book 1 and performances of John Adams’ Must the Devil Have All The Great Tunes? with the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony and Seattle Symphony.
Summer Gala Details
For details about this gala event, visit the GALA page. The purchase tickets link goes to the GALA TICKET page. Concert-only tickets will be available for purchase in May. More details coming soon!
