ON THIS DAY | Happy Birthday, Joshua Bell!

A student of legendary Russian pedagogue Josef Gingold, Joshua currently serves as Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and performs and records regularly with many of the world's eminent orchestras and conductors

Today is American violin virtuoso Joshua Bell's 53rd birthday!

He currently concertizes on the 1713 Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius.

JOSHUA BELL | TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO | VALERY GERGIEV & NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE UNITED STATES | 2013

Romance of the Violin |CD|

Joshua Bell, Violin

Michael Stern, Conductor

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Release Date: October 28, 2003

Sony Masternorks