Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s foremost violinists, Arabella Steinbacher is acclaimed for her technical mastery, radiant tone, and expressive depth. Her artistry encompasses an exceptionally wide repertoire, ranging from the masterworks of the Classical and Romantic eras to key twentieth-century compositions.
She has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Göteborgs Symfoniker, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de France.
She has worked with many of the most distinguished conductors of our time, among them Marin Alsop, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Jakub Hrůša, Pietari Inkinen, Vladimir Jurowski, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko, John Storgårds, and Kazuki Yamada.
with Ana Chumachenco at the University of Music and Theatre Munich when she was eight. She cites the late Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis as an important source of musical inspiration and guidance.
Arabella Steinbacher currently performs on the 1718 Antonio Stradivari (Cremona), known as the “ex Benno Walter”, and the 1744 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù “Sainton”, also from Cremona, both generously provided by a private Swiss foundation.
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