Arabella steinbacher biography

Her mother is a professionally trained singer who came to Germany from Japan to study music and her father was the first Solorepetitor in the Bayerische Staatsoper, from 1960 to 1972.
Arabella Miho Steinbacher (born 14 November 1981) is a German classical violinist.
Celebrated worldwide as one of today's leading soloists, Arabella Steinbacher is known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire.

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

Arabella Steinbacher regularly collaborates with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. She has performed to great acclaim with the London Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestras, the Orchestre National de France, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

She works with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Valery Gergiev, Jakub Hrůša, Marek Janowski, Vladimir Jurowski, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Kirill Petrenko.

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Born in Munich in 1981, violinist Arabella Steinbacher began studying the violin at the age of three. Her mother is a singer who came to Germany from Japan to study music, and her father was formerly first Solorepetitor for the Bavarian State Opera. At nine, she became the youngest violin student of Ana Chumachenko at the Munich Academy of Music. She received further musical inspiration and guidance from Ivry Gitlis. In 2001, Ms. Steinbacher won the sponsorship prize of the Free State of Bavaria and in the same year she was awarded a scholarship by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. Ms. Steinbacher's career was launched in 2004 with an unexpected debut in Paris, when she stepped in on short notice for an ailing colleague and performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut, as a Shenson Young Artist, in March 2011.

In the 2016-17 season, Ms. Steinbacher appears as Principal Guest Artist at the Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft and plays with the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra. Other highlights

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Biography – about the artist.

Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s leading soloists, Arabella Steinbacher is known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire, comprising pieces from the classical and romantic eras, alongside modernist concerto works by Barber, Berg, Britten, Bruch, Gubaidulina, Hindemith, Korngold, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Sibelius, and Szymanowski.

Arabella Steinbacher opens the 2024/25 season with a performance of Korngold’s Violin Concerto at the Engadin Festival. Shortly afterwards she will play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the Yerevan Festival before returning to the Dresdner Philharmonie in September under the baton of Marek Janowski. Further engagements will take her to KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and to the National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan where she will perform alongside their Music Director Jun Märkl. In Europe, she performs Barber’s Violin Concerto with the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Otto Tausk. Arabella Steinbacher will also perform with the Romanian Radio National Orchester, and with conductor Santtu-Mat