Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Steinbacher (born November 14, 1981 in Munich ) is a German violinist .
biography
Steinbacher was born in Munich as the daughter of a Japanese woman and the music professor Alexander Steinbacher . At the age of three she took violin lessons; nine years old, she received a scholarship to the University of Music in Munich with Ana Chumachenko , who recognized her exceptional talent and promoted. Steinbacher met Ivry Gitlis in Paris, to whom she owed many musical suggestions, and took part in masterclasses from Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sassmannshaus in Aspen , Colorado .
In 2003 she performed with the conductor Vladimir Fedosejew in Moscow on the 100th birthday of Aram Khachaturian . Steinbacher's debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi took place in November 2007 ( Sibelius concert ). The collaboration with von Dohnányi also extended into the following year. In the opening concert of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 2008 she performed with the NDR Symphony Orchestra , the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms .
In April 2011 she made her debut at New York's Carnegie Hall .
Steinbacher plays the Stradivarius violin “Booth”, which was built in 1716 and has been loaned to her by the Nippon Music Foundation since 2006 . She has perfect pitch .
Prizes / awards
- 2000 - Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hanover
- 2001 - Promotion Prize of the Free State of Bavaria
- 2001 - Scholarship holder in the circle of friends of the Anne Sophie Mutter Foundation
- 2005 - German Record Critics' Prize , Best List IV / 2005, for the CD with the Milhaud concerts
- 2007 - German Record Critics' Award, Best List I / 2007, for the CD with the Shostakovich concerts
- 2007 - Le Choc du mois (Le Monde de la musique magazine) for the CD with the Shostakovich concerts
- 2007 - ECHO Klassik award as the best young artist for the CD "Violino Latino"
- 2009 - German Record Critics' Award, Best List III / 2009, for the CD with Alban Berg and Beethoven compositions
- 2009 - Gramophone Editor's Choice for the CD with Dvořák and Szymanowski
- 2010 - Gramophone Editor's Choice for the CD with the Bartók concerts
- 2010 - ECHO Klassik Award for the best concert recording of the year for the CD with Dvořák and Szymanowski compositions
Recordings
Between 2004 and 2009 Steinbacher recorded six CDs for the Orfeo label. She has been under contract with the Pentatone label since mid-2009.
- 2004 - Aram Chatschaturjan : Concerto for violin and orchestra, Concerto for violoncello and orchestra; with Daniel Müller-Schott , violoncello, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , Sakari Oramo
- 2005 - Darius Milhaud : Violin Concerts No. 1 and No. 2, Concertino; Munich Radio Orchestra , Pinchas Steinberg
- 2006 - Violino Latino with works by Astor Piazzolla , Darius Milhaud , Fritz Kreisler and other composers; Peter von Wienhardt , piano
- 2006 - Dmitri Shostakovich : Violin Concertos No. 1 & 2; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , Andris Nelsons
- 2007 - Francis Poulenc , Gabriel Fauré , Maurice Ravel : violin sonatas; with Robert Kulek , piano
- 2009 - Ludwig van Beethoven , Alban Berg : Violin Concertos; WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne , Andris Nelsons
- 2009 - Antonín Dvořák : Violin Concerto in A minor, Romance in F minor, Karol Szymanowski : Violin Concerto No. 1; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin , Marek Janowski
- 2010 - Béla Bartók : Violin Concertos No. 1 (Sz. 36) and No. 2 (Sz. 112): Orchester de la Suisse Romande , Marek Janowski
- 2011 - Johannes Brahms : Violin Concerto in D major op. 77; Wiener Symphoniker , Fabio Luisi
- 2011 - Johannes Brahms: Complete Works for Violin and Piano; with Robert Kulek
- 2012 - Sergei Prokofiev : Violin Concertos in D major and G minor, solo sonata for violin; Russian National Orchestra , Vasily Petrenko
- 2013 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold : Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 25, Ernest Chausson : Poème, Op. 25, Max Bruch : Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 26, Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisboa, Lawrence Foster
- 2014 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Violin Concertos KV 216, 218 and 219; Festival Strings Lucerne
- 2014 - César Franck , Richard Strauss : Violin Sonatas; with Robert Kulek, piano
- 2015 - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : Violin Concerto op.64, Peter Tschaikowski : Violin Concerto op.35; Orchester de la Suisse Romande, Charles Dutoit
- 2016 - Fantasies by Arabella Steinbacher: Rhapsodies & Daydreams. Camille Saint-Saëns , Maurice Ravel , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Pablo de Sarasate , Jules Massenet
- 2017 - Benjamin Britten & Paul Hindemith : Violin Concertos; Arabella Steinbacher, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
- 2018 - Richard Strauss : Violin Concerto | Miniatures; Arabella Steinbacher, Lawrence Foster , WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Arabella Steinbacher beethovenfest.de
- ↑ Arabella Steinbacher: Vita ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. arabella-steinbacher.com
- ↑ Instruments of the Nippon Music Foundation nmf.or.jp (English), see Stradivarius 1716 Violin Booth
- ↑ Interview with Arabella Steinbacher in concerti magazine
- ↑ Arabella Steinbacher: Discography ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. arabella-steinbacher.com (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Steinbacher, Arabella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |