Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Miho Steinbacher (born 14 November 1981) is a German classical violinist.
Biography
Steinbacher was born in Munich on November 14, 1981, to a German father and a Japanese mother. When she was three, her mother read that a German violin teacher had recently returned from Japan after studying the Suzuki method. Steinbacher was started on violin lessons at that time. When she was nine years old, she was enrolled at the Munich College of Music and mentored by Ana Chumachenco.
Steinbacher came into contact with Ivry Gitlis, and took part in master classes by Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sassmannshaus in Aspen, Colorado. She won several important prizes (the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanover), and a grant from the Free State of Bavaria in 2001, then became a student of Anne-Sophie Mutter's Freundeskreis ("Circle of friends").
Steinbacher currently plays the Booth Stradivarius (1716) provided by the Nippon Music Foundation.
Prizes and honours
- 2000 Joseph-Joachim-Violinwettbewerbes Hannover
- 2001 Förderpreis des Freistaates Bayern
- 2001 Scholarship "Anne-Sophie Mutter's circle of friends"
Recordings
- 2004 Aram Khachaturian – Concerto for violin and orchestra and 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; Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Pincas Steinberg
- 2006 Violino Latino – Arabella Steinbacher, Peter von Wienhardt
- 2006 Dmitri Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto No.2, Arabella Steinbacher, Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks
- 2008 Sonatas for violin and piano/"Gypsy", Poulenc, Fauré, Ravel – Arabella Steinbacher, Robert Kulek
- 2009 Beethoven/Berg: Concertos for Violin – Arabella Steinbacher, Andris Nelsons
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