Recognized worldwide as one of today’s foremost soloists, Arabella Steinbacher is noted for her extraordinarily varied repertoire, which includes major works from the Classical and Romantic periods, along with modernist works by 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, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the NDR Elbe Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with great success with the London Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestre National de France, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, 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, which already includes nineteen recordings, is a magnificent example of the diversity of her repertoire. She records exclusively for Pentatone. Her most recent recording includes Astor Piazzolla’s and Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and was recorded with her playing/conducting the Munich Chamber Orchestra.
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 Performing Arts Munich from the age of eight. A source of inspiration and musical guidance for her is the Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis.
Currently, Steinbacher plays an Antonio Stradivari violin (Cremona, 1718) known as “ex Benno Walter”, generously on loan from a private Swiss foundation.