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Joshua Bell accepts 16th Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward
May 28, 2019,10:17 AM
- Joshua Bell accepts 16th Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward
German watchmaker honours American violinist’s cultural commitment
On
Monday evening the violinist Joshua Bell accepted the 16th Glashütte
Original MusicFestivalAward. Glashütte Original managing director Frank
Kittel presented the award in the festive setting of the Frauenkirche in
Dresden, on the occasion of the violinist’s concert. The 25,000 Euro
award, hand-crafted by two students from the Glashütte manufactory’s
watchmaking school, was awarded to Bell for his many years of commitment
to cultural understanding and support for the development of young
artists.
Award ceremony
Award ceremony
Joshua
Bell, one of the greatest violinists of our time, accepted the 25,000
Euro award in the Dresden Frauenkirche from Frank Kittel, managing
director and Chief Financial Officer of Glashütte Original, and Jan
Vogel, director of the Dresden Music Festival.
The
Saxon watchmaker and the Dresden Music Festival honoured the American
for his exceptional cultural and social commitment. His conception of
music as a way to further transcultural understanding is also evident in
the NAMM Foundation’s school reform project, “Education Through Music
and Turnaround Arts”, which offers disadvantaged children a variety of
ways to approach classical music. Bell is also involved in supporting
the string players of the National Young Arts Foundation, a charity
dedicated to furthering the development of emerging artists at high
schools. Bell also teaches at his alma mater, the Jacobs School of
Music.
Visibly moved, the award winner said, “I am profoundly
honoured to receive this year’s Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward,
and wish to thank Glashütte Original and the Dresden Music Festival. Few
things in life give me greater pleasure than to share my love of music
with the next generation.”
Joshua Bell and the Camerata Salzburg
under the direction of Andrew Manze gave a brilliant performance,
delighting the audience in the Frauenkirche with works by Sibelius,
Dvořák and Beethoven.
Presstalk Joshua Bell Jan Vogler
Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward celebrates its 16th editionWith
the award to Joshua Bell, Glashütte Original and the Dresden Music
Festival honoured, for the 16th time, an outstanding representative of
the world of music who has rendered exceptional service to classical
music and the development of emerging talent. Every year two students
from Glashütte Original’s own “Alfred Helwig” watchmaking school build
the award trophy, which combines traditional craftsmanship with
contemporary materials. The cantilevered “flying” tourbillon symbolises
the virtuosity of watchmakers and is considered representative of the
art of watchmaking at its best.
As winner of the award, Joshua
Bell succeeds artists such as Joyce DiDonato, Sir Simon Rattle and the
Berlin Philharmonic, fado singer Mariza, conductor Andris Nelsons and
cellist Steven Isserlis, among others. Glashütte Original has been a
supporting partner of the Dresden Music Festival since 2004; the motto
of the Festival this year is “Visions”. Exceptional artists will perform
in a great variety of venues during this 42nd edition of the renowned
festival, which runs through to the 10th of June.