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Arabella Steinbacher Arabella Steinbacher is celebrated as one of today’s leading violinists worldwide, praised as “queen of the evening” for her “brilliant playing", “extraordinary sound” and “softly blossomingtone”, to eite recent press reviews. Known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire, she plays, in addition to all major Classical and Romantic Violin Concertos, also those of Bartök, Berg, Glazunov, Katchaturian, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Szymanowski, Hindemith, Hartmann and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Offertorium to name a few. Arabella Steinbacher frequently plays internationally with all major orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Orchestra National de France, Vienna Symphony, NHK Symphony Orchestra and has performed with conductors such as the late Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnänyi, Riccardo Chailly, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph Eschenbach and Charles Dutoit. Her debuts at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2013, atthe 2009 BBC Proms in London and at Carnegie Hall in 2011 have been praised by international press. Recent engagements include her return to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, the Orchestre National de France and the Spanish National Orchestra. Her tours in 2017-18 have taken herto Germany with Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg in late 2017, the UKwith Dresden Philharmonie under Michael Sanderling and Asia with WDR Symphony Orchestra and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. As a CARE International charity ambassador, Arabella Steinbacher continually Supports people in need. In December 2011 she toured through Japan commemoratingthetsunami catastrophe of the same year. The DVD Arabella Steinbacher - Music ofHope with recordings from this tour was later released bythe label Nightberry. Her latest CD release is an album with The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski featuring Hindemith and Britten violin concertos. Among many international and national music prizes and nominations, she has been awarded the ECHO Klassik twice. Arabella Steinbacher has been recording exclusively for Pentatone Classics since 2009. Earlier recordings include a Mozart album with the Festival Strings Lucerne, an album with sonatas by Richard Strauss and Cesar Franck with pianist Robert Kulek and her last recording by Pentatone Classics in collaboration with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Charles Dutoit with violin concertos by Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. Born into a family of musicians, Arabella Steinbacher played the violin from the age of three and studied with Ana Chumachenco atthe Munich Academy of Music from the age of nine. A source of her musical inspiration and guidance is Israeli Violinist Ivry Gitlis. Arabella Steinbacher currently plays the 1716 "Booth“ Stradivari, generously loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation.