Arabella Steinbacher

Arabella Steinbacher ( born November 14, 1981 in Munich) is a German violinist.

Biography

Arabella Steinbacher was born on 14 November 1981 in Munich, the daughter of a Japanese woman and music professor Alexander Steinbacher. At the age of three she got violin lessons at age nine, she received a scholarship to study at the Academy of Music in Munich Ana Chumachenco who recognized her exceptional talent and encouraged. Steinbacher met Ivri Gitlis in Paris, to which it owes many musical suggestions, and participated in master classes with Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sass 's house in Aspen, Colorado.

Meanwhile Arabella Steinbacher, the international breakthrough and it is one of the most prominent German violinists of her generation. She has a perfect pitch.

Guest performances in Japan, Australia, Russia, Monaco, France, England and Spain, invitations to Italy, Finland, Denmark and Norway show their high reputation. A highlight of her career was the concert in Moscow in 2003 with conductor Vladimir Fedosseyev the hundredth anniversary of Aram Khachaturian. Arabella Steinbacher's debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra took place in November 2007 ( Sibelius Concerto, conductor Christoph von Dohnányi ).

In the last five years, Arabella Steinbacher has recorded six CDs for the label Orfeo International. The recording of Milhaud Violin Concertos was awarded the German Record Critics' Award ( Best list 4/2005 ) and the two Shostakovich concertos were the star of the month of the trade magazine Fono Forum (February 2007). In May 2007, with pianist Robert Steinbacher took Kulek the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, a French program: Violin Sonatas by Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel and Gabriel Fauré and Ravel's " Tzigane ". In the great hall of the Musikverein in Vienna in December 2007, she played the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms, accompanied by Fabio Luisi and the Wiener Symphoniker. It is planned to produce the recordings of the concerts recorded live. Since mid-2009, it stands at the label Pentatone under contract.

Arabella Steinbacher currently plays the Booth Stradivarius ( 1716) by Antonio Stradivari Giacomo, which is loaned to her by the Nippon Music Foundation.

In April 2011, Arabella Steinbacher made ​​her debut at New York's Carnegie Hall.

Prizes / Awards

  • 2000 Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hannover
  • 2001 Award of the Free State of Bavaria
  • 2001 Fellow in the Anne -Sophie Mutter Foundation
  • 2005 Prize of the German Record Critics, Bestof IV/2005 for the CD with the Milhaud concerts
  • 2007 Prize of the German Record Critics, Bestof I/2007, for the CD with the Shostakovich concertos
  • 2007 Les Chocs du Mois ( magazine Le Monde de la Musique ') for the CD with the Shostakovich concertos
  • 2007 ECHO Klassik Award for best young artist for the CD " Violino Latino "
  • 2009 Prize of the German Record Critics, Bestof III/2009, and for the CD with Alban Berg Beethoven
  • 2010 ECHO Klassik Award for Best Concerto Recording of the Year for the CD with Dvorak and Szymanowski

Recordings

  • Aram Khachaturian 2004 - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and Concerto for Cello and Orchestra; Daniel Müller- Schott, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
  • 2005 Darius Milhaud - Violin Concerto No. 1, Violin Concerto No.2, Concertino; Munich Radio Orchestra, Pinchas Steinberg
  • 2006 Violino Latino of works by Astor Piazzolla, Darius Milhaud, Fritz Kreisler and other composers; Peter of Wienhardt, piano
  • 2006 Dimitri Shostakovich Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Arabella Steinbacher, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
  • 2007 Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonatas - Arabella Steinbacher, violin, Robert Kulek, piano
  • 2009 Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg: Violin Concertos - WDR Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
  • 2009 Antonin Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Romance in F minor, Karol Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
  • 2010 Béla Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 ( Sz36 ) and No.2 ( Sz112 ), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
  • 2011 Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, op.77, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi
  • 2011 Johannes Brahms: Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Robert Kulek
  • 2012 Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concertos in D major and G minor Sonata for violin, Russian National Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
  • 2013 Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, op.25, Ernest Chausson: Poème op.25, Max Bruch: Violin Concerto in G minor, op.26, Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, Lawrence Foster
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