Musical America Award
Now in its third century as the indispensable resource for the performing arts, Musical America Presents is Musical America's annual award, recognizing artistic excellence and achievement in the arts. The announcement coincides with the publication of the new edition of the Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts, which, in addition to its comprehensive industry listings, pays homage to awardees in its editorial pages.

On December 14th, 2009 at the annual Musical America Awards ceremony held at Lincoln Center, Joshua was presented with the 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year Award.

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 CenterÌs arts groups. Josh received this prestigious award in 1986.
 

Distinguished Alumni Service Award
Indiana 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 Award
In 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) Award
The 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 MarsalisÌ 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 B»la 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."
 

Pulitzer Prize
Last year, Joshua agreed to be part of a cultural experiment that examined art and context that was conducted by the Washington Post. The experiment turned into a Washington Post cover story titled “Pearls Before Breakfast” which created an international firestorm of discussion about how we appreciate art, and specifically, music. On April 7, 2008 it was announced that this provocative think-piece by Gene Weingarten was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Read the story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

Announcement of Pulitzer Prize Win :
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/07/pulitzers.ap/index.html