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Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell, after a performance with the San Francisco Symphony in California
Background information
Origin	Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Genres	Classical music
Occupation	Violinist
Instrument	Violin
Years active	1980s–present
Website	http://www.joshuabell.com/

Joshua David Bell is an American violinist.

Joshua Bell was born into a Jewish-American family in Bloomington, Indiana. His father was the late Alan P. Bell, a former psychology professor at Indiana University, and a researcher on homosexuality at the Kinsey Institute.^[1][2] In an interview, Bell said that "music was very important in my family"; however, none of his family members were professional musicians.^[3] Bell began learning the violin at age four, after his parents noticed that he had stretched rubber bands around the handles of dresser drawers, and was plucking classical tunes.^[1][4] He took to the instrument quickly, but otherwise led a normal childhood, enjoying video games, pinball, and tennis: he was an Indiana tennis champion at the age of 10.^[5]

Bell began his musical instruction with Mimi Zweig, and made his debut as a soloist with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra at age seven. His playing caught the intrest of Josef Gingold's, a member of Indiana University's music faculty, who took Bell as a pupil by age 12.^[6]

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