Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk To Perform At The Phillips Center

Two extraordinary talents will come together for a performance not to be missed by classical music lovers. Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell and noted pianist Jeremy Denk have paired up for an evening of exceptional music on Saturday, February 6 at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

For more than two decades, Joshua Bell has enchanted audiences worldwide with his breathtaking virtuosity and tone of rare beauty. He came to national attention at the age of 14 in a highly acclaimed orchestral debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra. A Carnegie Hall debut, the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a recording contract further confirmed his presence in the music world. Today he is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra leader. His restless curiosity and multifaceted musical interests have taken him in exciting new directions that have earned him the rare title of "classical music superstar."

Highlights of Bell's 09-10 season include the September 29 release of Joshua Bell At Home With Friends featuring collaborations with Chris Botti, Sting, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Regina Spektor, Anoushka Shankar, Marvin Hamlisch and Tiempo Libre, among others. Performance highlights include the Hollywood Bowl, Verbier, Tuscan Sun, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Tanglewood, Menuhin, Gstaad and Enescu festivals. Western hemisphere engagements include appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony and The National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. Bell performs at the Huberman Festival with the Czestochowa Philharmonic and returns to Moscow to perform with the Russian National Orchestra. 2010 will see Bell on a European and U.S. recital tour which includes Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall and the Wigmore Hall in London; a performance for the World Economic Forum, and dates in Paris, Budapest, Madrid, Athens, Zurich and Istanbul, as well as a tour to Asia with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

American pianist Jeremy Denk has steadily built a reputation as one of today's most compelling and persuasive artists with an unusually broad repertoire.

Denk has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the London Philharmonia, the New World Symphony, the Dallas Symphony and the Houston Symphony. Last season he appeared for the third time with the San Francisco Symphony performing Beethoven's First Concerto. He appears often in recital in New York, Washington, Boston, and Philadelphia.

During the 2009-10 season Denk performs concertos by Beethoven, Chopin, Copland, Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Schumann. He plays a recital of Chopin and Schumann at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center and Washington's Kennedy Center, and he collaborates with baritone Randall Scarlata in Schubert's Winterreise in Florida and at Boston's Gardner Museum. Denk will give master classes at the Manhattan School of Music and University of Washington, and he will perform Stravisnky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with the London Symphony Orchestra and John Adams in London and Paris. He will also perform the Stravinsky as part of Carnegie Hall's City Noir in Zankel Hall on May 10.

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