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Arabella Steinbacher

German classical violinist

Arabella Steinbacher

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Born14 November

Munich

NationalityGerman
Alma&#;materMunich College of Music
Occupationclassical violinist
Awards
  • International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition (3rd Prize)
  • Förderpreis des Freistaates Bayern
  • Scholarship "Anne-Sophie Mutter's circle of friends"

Arabella Miho Steinbacher (born 14 November ) is a German classicalviolinist.

Biography

Steinbacher was born in Munich to a Japanese mother and a German father.

When she was 3, her mother read that a German violin teacher had recently returned from Japan after studying the Suzuki method. She started violin lessons at that time. When she was nine 9 old, she was enrolled at the Munich College of Music and mentored by Ana Chumachenco. She came into contact with the Israeli violinist Ivry Gitliswho was a source of musical inspiration and guidance of hers, and took part in master-classes by Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sassmannshaus in Aspen, Colorado.

When she was three, her mother read that a German violin teacher had recently returned from Japan after studying the Suzuki method. Steinbacher started violin lessons at that time. When she was nine years old, she was enrolled at the Munich College of Music and mentored by Ana Chumachenco.[1]

Steinbacher came into contact with Ivry Gitlis, and took part in master classes by Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sassmannshaus in Aspen, Colorado.

She won several important prizes (the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanover),[2] and a grant from the Free State of Bavaria in , then became a learner of Anne-Sophie Mutter's Freundeskreis ("Circle of friends").

Steinbacher frequently appears with world-class orchestras around the globe including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra,[3] and the Cleveland Orchestra.

She has made acclaimed performances with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Vienna Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

She has collaborated with conductors including Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Riccardo Chailly, Herbert Blomstedt, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Thomas Hengelbrock.

Furthermore, she will return to Festival Strings Lucerne with whom she has a long-standing musical friendship. The piece, which was written especially for her, was jointly commissioned by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where it premiered in April Her extensive discography impressively demonstrates her diverse repertoire. Born into a family of musicians, she has played the violin since the age of three and began her studies with Ana Chumachenco at the University of Music and Theatre Munich when she was eight.

Her recording with Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski features the Hindemith and Britten violin concertos. Arabella Steinbacher has been recording exclusively for PENTATONE since Among many international and national music prizes and nominations, she has been twice awarded the ECHO Klassik.

As CARE spokesperson, Steinbacher is driven to operate music as a means to uplift and support those in need. She launched a December Japan tour in response to the tsunami disaster earlier that year. The DVD release Arabella Steinbacher – Music of Hope featured her outreach, and youth recitals from this tour and was released shortly after.

Steinbacher currently plays the Booth Stradivarius () provided by the Nippon Music Foundation.[4][5][6]

She married Wolfgang Schaufler, publisher at Universal Edition, Vienna, in [7]

In April , Steinbacher premiered a new violin concerto, "To beam in distant heavens", by composer Georges Lentz to great acclaim.[8][9]

Prizes and honours

Recordings

  • Aram Khachaturian – Violin Concerto and Cello Concerto; Arabella Steinbacher, Daniel Müller-Schott, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo Orfeo C A
  • Darius Milhaud – Violin Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto No.2, Concertino; Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Pinchas SteinbergOrfeo C A
  • Violino Latino – Arabella Steinbacher, Peter von Wienhardt Orfeo C A
  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto No Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen RundfunksOrfeo C A
  • Sonatas for violin and piano/"Gypsy", Poulenc, Fauré, Ravel – Robert KulekOrfeo C A
  • Beethoven – Violin Concerto, Alban Berg – Violin Concerto – Andris NelsonsOrfeo C A
  • Dvorak – Violin Concerto, Romanze f-moll, Karol Szymanowski – Violin Concerto No.

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    Steinbacher, Arabella de: Arabella Miho Steinbacher (born 14 November ) is a German classical violinist.

    Marek Janowski, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. PENTATONE PTC

  • Béla Bartók – Violin Concerto No. 1, Violin Concerto No. 2. Marek Janowski, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. PENTATONE PTC
  • Johannes Brahms – Violin ConcertoOrfeo C A
  • Johannes Brahms – Complete Works for Violin and Piano.

    Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s leading violinists, Arabella Steinbacher has been praised as the “queen of the evening” for her “brilliant playing”, “extraordinary sound” and “softly blossoming tone”.

    Robert Kulek. PENTATONE PTC

  • Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No. 1, Violin Concerto No. 2, Sonata for Solo Violin. Vasily Petrenko, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Violin Concerto, Ernest Chausson – Poème, Max Bruch – Violin Concerto No.

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    Biography. Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s leading soloists, Arabella Steinbacher is known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire, comprising of pieces from the classical and romantic eras, alongside modernist concerto works of Bartók, Berg, Britten, Glazunov, Gubaidulina, Hartmann, Hindemith, Khachaturian, Milhaud, Prokofiev.

    Lawrence Foster, Gulbenkian Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 3, Violin Concerto No. 4, Violin Concerto No. 5. Daniel Dodds, Festival Strings Lucerne. PENTATONE PTC
  • Creating Timeless Classics. Martin Helmchen, Arabella Steinbacher, Nareh Arghamanyan, Mari Kodama, Julia Fischer, Russian National Orchestra, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

    Pieces by Robert Schumann, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Howard Blake. PENTATONE PTC

  • César Franck – Violin Sonata, Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata. Robert Kulek.

    Arabella Miho Steinbacher born 14 November is a German classical violinist. Steinbacher was born in Munich to a Japanese mother and a German father. When she was three, her mother examine that a German violin mentor had recently returned from Japan after studying the Suzuki tactic. Steinbacher started violin lessons at that time.

    PENTATONE PTC

  • Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Charles Dutoit, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. PENTATONE PTC
  • Violin showpieces by Pablo de Sarasate, Franz Waxman, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet, Maurice Ravel, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

    Lawrence Foster, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. PENTATONE PTC

  • Benjamin Britten – Violin Concerto, Paul Hindemith – Violin Concerto. Vladimir Jurowski, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. PENTATONE PTC
  • Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto, Miniatures.

    Close Window Time Out You have exceeded the time limit and your seats have been released. Time left to fulfill order. German violinist Arabella Steinbacher has firmly established herself as one of today's leading violinists on the international concert scene, performing with the world's major orchestras. The central Adagio came off especially beautifully, Steinbacher conveying its brooding melancholy with a rich vibrato, impeccable intonation and a remarkable breadth of phrasing.

    Lawrence Foster, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne

  • Antonio Vivaldi – Four Seasons, Astor Piazzolla – Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas. Munich Chamber Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC
  • Mozart: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 - Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds.

    PENTATONE PTC

  • Bach & Pärt - Stuttgarter Kamerorchester, Christoph Koncz. PENTATONE PTC

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