Arabella Steinbacher - NOSPR

Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s foremost soloists, Arabella Steinbacher is acclaimed for her technical mastery, radiant tone, and expressive depth. Her artistry brings to life a remarkably wide repertoire, from the masterworks of the Classical and Romantic eras to key twentieth century compositions by Barber, Berg, Britten, Korngold, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Sibelius.

Arabella Steinbacher opens the 2025/26 season with her return to the BBC Proms in London, performing Milhaud’s “Le boeuf sur le toit” with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko. Further highlights include appearances with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Taiwan Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. She welcomes the new year with a performance of Bruch’s Violin Concerto at the Dortmund Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert under the baton of Jordan de Souza. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto forms a cornerstone of the season. She performs it with the Frankfurter Opern-und Museumsorchester at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, continuing her close artistic partnership with Marek Janowski. She also presents the concerto with the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen under Giedrė Šlekytė, as well as on tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner. Other engagements include Arabella Steinbacher’s return to the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw and a tour with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Otto Tausk to Croatia and Slovenia.

Equally devoted to chamber music, she continues her recital partnership with pianist Peter von Wienhardt. This season, the duo performs at Bruchsaler Schlosskonzerte and in Alicante. The past year was marked by a widely acclaimed tour with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder and a return to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Edward Gardner. A major milestone was the release of her latest recording “Beethoven & Lentz” with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Gustavo Gimeno on the Pentatone label. She also introduced Georges Lentz’s “...to beam in distant heavens...”, a work written for her, to German audiences with the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Bancroft, before giving its Japanese premiere with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra under Chief Conductor Nodoka Okisawa.

Her extensive discography reflects both versatility and artistic curiosity. It includes works by Arvo Pärt and Johann Sebastian Bach with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, a highly praised Mozart cycle with the Festival Strings Lucerne, as well as “The Four Seasons” by Astor Piazzolla and Antonio Vivaldi with the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Twentieth century repertoire has a prominent place, with acclaimed recordings of Britten, Hindemith, Szymanowski, Strauss, and Prokofiev.

Arabella Steinbacher has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and Göteborgs Symfoniker. She has also performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra as well as the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and KBS Symphony Orchestra. She has toured extensively with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken.

She has collaborated with many of the most distinguished conductors, including Marin Alsop, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Jakub Hrůša, Pietari Inkinen, Vladimir Jurowski, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko, John Storgårds, and Kazuki Yamada.

Born into a family of musicians, she has played the violin since the age of three and began her studies with Ana Chumachenco at the University of Music and Theatre Munich when she was eight. She cites the late Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis as a source of musical inspiration and guidance.

Arabella Steinbacher currently performs on the Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1718, known as "ex Benno Walter", and the Guarneri del Gesù „Sainton“, Cremona, 1744, both generously provided by a private Swiss Foundation.