Arabella Steinbacher

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.

Arabella Steinbacher’s discography, now at nineteen recordings, impressively demonstrates her diverse repertoire. She records exclusively for Pentatone. Her most recent recording features “The Four Seasons” of both Astor Piazzolla and Antonio Vivaldi, and was recorded with her play/directing the Münchener Kammerorchester.

Born into a family of musicians, Steinbacher has played the violin since the age of three and studied with Ana Chumachenco at the University of Music and Theatre, Munich, since the age of eight. A source of musical inspiration and guidance of hers is Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis.

Steinbacher currently plays the violin of Antonio Stradivari, Cremona 1718, known as the "ex Benno Walter", generously provided by a private Swiss Foundation.