Biographies Arabella Steinbacher violin German Violinist Arabella Steinbacher has firmly established herseif as one of today’s leading violinists on the international concert scene, performing with the world’s major orchestras. The New York Times reports that she plays with, ‘Balanced lyricism and fire - among her assets are a finely polished technique and a beautifully varied palette of timbres.’ Ms Steinbacher’s career was launched in 2004 with an extraordinary and 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 under Sir Neville Marriner. Her diverse and deep repertoire includes more than thirty concertos for violin. In addition to all of the major concertos of the Classical and Romantic period, she also performs those of Barber, Bartbk, Berg, Glazunov, Szymanowski, Hindemith, Hartmann, and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Offertorium. Among her numerous recording honours are 2 ECHO-Klassik Awards (considered to be the German equivalent of the Grammy) Les Chocs du Mois from Le Monde de la Musique, and two German Record Critics Awards as well as the prestigious Editors Choice Award from Gramophone magazine. Arabella Steinbacher records exclusively for PentaTone Classics. Her first CD on that label, released in autumn 2009, included Dvoräk’s Violin Concerto in A Minor and Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No 1, as well as Dvoräk’s Romance in F Minor, with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin led by Marek Janowski. Her latest CD of Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Charles Dutoit, was released in June 2015. Recent seasons have included performances with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Orchestre et Opera National de Montpellier, Orchestre de Paris, returns to the San Francisco Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as her Cleveland Orchestra debut. In April 2011 she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the conductor-less Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and her subscription debut with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra, as well as her debut at Maggio Musicale in Florence under Zubin Mehta and her debut with the Israel Philharmonie. In August 2009 Arabella Steinbacher made her much-anticipated debut at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra led by Jonathan Nott. Born in Munich in 1981 to a German father and a Japanese mother, Arabella Steinbacher began studying the violin at the age of three. In 2001, she 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. Arabella Steinbacher currently plays the ’Booth’ Stradivari (1716) generously provided by the Nippon Music Foundation. Arabella Steinbacher is represented by Tanja Dorn, IMG Artists.