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“We’re using the orchestra as the band. I think of it like, Imagine Joshua Bell sings his own songs.”

Ahead of the Bloomington-born violinist’s performances with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra October 5–7, we talked memorable mishaps, performing for presidents, and the whole Pulitzer Prize–winning subway-experiment story. When was the first moment you thought, Hey, I could make a career out of this? It was around the time I started studying in Bloomington with Josef […]

Joshua Bell and his $12 million, 302-year-old Stradivarius open the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s season September 26.

She recently became the first American-born composer to win Ireland’s prestigious traditional-music prize, the Cumadoir TG4.

Even ISO Concertmaster Zachary De Pue, proud owner of a 1757 Gagliano, affirms, “The greatest makers have been chosen by the best violinists around the world over and over again. Strads and Guarneri del Gesu.”

Noteworthy: French Impressions, his album with pianist and fellow IU Jacobs School of Music alum Jeremy Denk, comes out this month.