Joshua Bell and Larisa Martínez
The Beatrice and Randolph Guthrie Lecture
With a career spanning almost four decades, Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. He has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, and regularly appears as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor, and as the Music Director of London’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, for which he leads extensive U.S. and European tours. Joshua Bell has been nominated for six Grammy awards, named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, selected as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, and recognized with the Avery Fisher Prize. He performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.
Puerto Rican opera singer Larisa Martínez is praised and sought after for her ‘smoky soprano’ (Opera News), gracing top stages and collaborating with household names. In 2019 she made both her Kennedy Center recital debut and Carnegie Hall debut, singing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Athens Philharmonic. Internationally, Larisa Martínez is a longtime touring partner of acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli. She was invited as part of President Obama’s artistic delegation to Cuba in 2016, featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS special, “Live from Lincoln Center: Seasons of Cuba.” An advocate for accessible music education, Larisa Martínez is an artistic resident of Turnaround Arts, led by the Presidential Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
The Beatrice and Randolph Guthrie Lecture
Bea Guthrie is a graduate of Smith College Summa cum Laude majoring in Fine Arts. She and Bob married in 1965. She served as Patron Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera and member of the Executive Committee and then moved to Save Venice as Executive Director where she was principally responsible for its rebirth and success. She and Bob are parents of two sons and four grandchildren. Bob Guthrie is an alumnus of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School and trained at Cornell Medical Center. He is Board Certified in General Surgery and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. He served as Chief of the latter at Memorial Sloan Kettering, as Full Attending Surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Full Professor at Cornell Weill College of Medicine. For 25 years, he was the Chairman of Save Venice and is now the Chairman of The Society of the Four Arts.