The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 4, RV 297 'Winter': II. The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto In F Major, Op. 8 N 3, Rv 293 Autumn Iii. Allegro: 03:28: $0.15: 13: 4 Estaciones Portenas (Arr. Von Wienhardt For Violin & Orchestra) Ii. Invierno Porteno: 07:45: $0.15: 14: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto In F Minor, Op. 8 N 4, Rv 297 Winter I. As CARE ambassador, Steinbacher is driven to use music as a means to uplift and support those in need. She launched a December 2011 Japan tour in response to the tsunami disaster earlier that year. The DVD release Arabella Steinbacher – Music of Hope featured her outreach, and youth recitals from this tour and was released shortly after. Arabella Steinbacher. 4 Estaciones Portenas (Arr. Von Wienhardt For Violin & Orchestra) Iii. Primavera Portena. The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto In E Major, Op. 8 N 1, Rv 269 Spring Ii. Largo E Pianissimo Sempre. The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto In E Major, Op. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons. Catalogue Number PENTATONE PTC 518 6746. Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires have become a popular pairing with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, fusing tango and jazz in their evocation of urban life to contrast Baroque pictures of the rural year. Steinbacher embraces both sides of this considerable stylistic gulf with aplomb.

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Arabella Miho Steinbacher (born 14 November 1981) is a German classicalviolinist.

Biography[edit]

Steinbacher was born in Munich to a Japanese mother and a German father. When she was three, her mother read that a German violin teacher had recently returned from Japan after studying the Suzuki method. Steinbacher started 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.^[1]

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),^[2] 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 frequently appears with world-class orchestras around the globe including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra,^[3] and the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. She has made acclaimed performances with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Vienna Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors including Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Riccardo Chailly, Herbert Blomstedt, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Thomas Hengelbrock.

Her recording with Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski features the Hindemith and Britten violin concertos. Arabella Steinbacher has been recording exclusively for PENTATONE since 2009. Among many international and national music prizes and nominations, she has been twice awarded the ECHO Klassik.

As CARE ambassador, Steinbacher is driven to use music as a means to uplift and support those in need. She launched a December 2011 Japan tour in response to the tsunami disaster earlier that year. The DVD release Arabella Steinbacher – Music of Hope featured her outreach, and youth recitals from this tour and was released shortly after.

Steinbacher currently plays the Booth Stradivarius (1716) provided by the Nippon Music Foundation.^[4][5][6]

She married Wolfgang Schaufler, publisher at Universal Edition, Vienna, in 2017.^[7]

Prizes and honours[edit]

• 2000 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition [de] (3rd Prize)^[8][9]
• 2001 Förderpreis des Freistaates Bayern
• 2001 Scholarship 'Anne-Sophie Mutter's circle of friends'

Recordings[edit]

• 2004 Aram Khachaturian – Violin Concerto and Cello Concerto; Arabella Steinbacher, Daniel Müller-Schott, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo Orfeo C 623 041 A
• 2005 Darius Milhaud – Violin Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto No.2, Concertino; Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Pinchas SteinbergOrfeo C 646 051 A
• 2006 Violino Latino – Arabella Steinbacher, Peter von Wienhardt Orfeo C 686 061 A
• 2006 Dmitri Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto No.2. Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen RundfunksOrfeo C 687 061 A
• 2008 Sonatas for violin and piano/'Gypsy', Poulenc, Fauré, Ravel – Robert KulekOrfeo C 739 081 A
• 2009 Beethoven – Violin Concerto, Alban Berg – Violin Concerto – Andris NelsonsOrfeo C 778 091 A
• 2009 Dvorak – Violin Concerto, Romanze f-moll, Karol Szymanowski – Violin Concerto No. 1. Marek Janowski, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. PENTATONE PTC 5186353.
• 2010 Béla Bartók – Violin Concerto No. 1, Violin Concerto No. 2. Marek Janowski, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. PENTATONE PTC 5186350.
• 2011 Johannes Brahms – Violin ConcertoOrfeo C 752 111 A
• 2011 Johannes Brahms – Complete Works for Violin and Piano. Robert Kulek. PENTATONE PTC 5186367.
• 2012 Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No. 1, Violin Concerto No. 2, Sonata for Solo Violin. Vasily Petrenko, Russian National Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186395.
• 2013 Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Violin Concerto, Ernest Chausson – Poème, Max Bruch – Violin Concerto No. 1. Lawrence Foster, Gulbenkian Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186503.
• 2014 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 3, Violin Concerto No. 4, Violin Concerto No. 5. Daniel Dodds, Festival Strings Lucerne. PENTATONE PTC 5186479.
• 2014 Creating Timeless Classics. Martin Helmchen, Arabella Steinbacher, Nareh Arghamanyan, Mari Kodama, Julia Fischer , Russian National Orchestra, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Pieces by Robert Schumann, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Howard Blake. PENTATONE PTC 5186531.
• 2014 César Franck – Violin Sonata, Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata. Robert Kulek. PENTATONE PTC 5186470.
• 2015 Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Charles Dutoit, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. PENTATONE PTC 5186504.
• 2016 Violin showpieces by Pablo de Sarasate, Franz Waxman, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet, Maurice Ravel, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Lawrence Foster, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. PENTATONE PTC 5186536.
• 2017 Benjamin Britten – Violin Concerto, Paul Hindemith – Violin Concerto. Vladimir Jurowski, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. PENTATONE PTC 5186625.
• 2018 Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto, Miniatures. Lawrence Foster, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
• 2020 Antonio Vivaldi – Four Seasons, Astor Piazzolla – Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas. Munich Chamber Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186746.

References[edit]

1. ^Cleve, Emily van (17 December 2006). 'Violinist called a master of concerto'. Albuquerque Journal. Albuquerque, New Mexico. p. 57. Retrieved 25 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
2. ^Johnson, Lawrence A. (19 June 2006). 'Steinbacher makes an impressive debut'. South Florida Sun Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. p. 57. Retrieved 25 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
3. ^'Chicago Symphony Orchestra'. Chicago Tribune. Chicago. 28 October 2007. p. 7-3. Retrieved 25 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
4. ^Schickhaus, Stefan (12 November 2008). 'Filigraner Bogen'. Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
5. ^'Visiting Artists: Arabella Steinbacher'. cso.org.
6. ^'Recipients of Instruments | Nippon Music Foundation'. 日本音楽財団.
7. ^'Social and personal : Top violinist gets wed'.
8. ^Budmen, Lawrence (19 June 2006). 'Fine moments ultimately disappointing'. The Miami Herald. Miami, Florida. p. 61. Retrieved 25 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
9. ^'Prize Winners'. JJV Hannover.

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Arabella Steinbacher discography at Discogs

Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s leading violinists, Arabella Steinbacher has been praised for her “brilliant playing”, “extraordinary sound” and “softly blossoming tone”.

Highlights of the 2019/2020 season include concerts with Camerata Salzburg and a tour with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Arabella Steinbacher will also return to Washington DC with the National Symphony Orchestra, perform with Dresden Philharmonic at Kissinger Sommer, and present a program of Bach and Arvo Pärt with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Additionally, she is going to tour her Vivaldi / Piazzolla project in Europe and play at the AIDS Gala in Munich.

Steinbacher frequently appears with world-class orchestras around the globe including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, London Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. She has made acclaimed performances with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Philadelphia Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Arabella Steinbacher has collaborated with conductors including Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Thomas Hengelbrock, Marek Janowski, Vladimir Jurowski, Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Her most recent recording features the music of Richard Strauss including the Violin Concerto and transcriptions of lieder with conductor Lawrence Foster and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Her upcoming album will include the Four Seasons by both, Astor Piazzolla and Antonio Vivaldi, joined by the Münchener Kammerorchester and will be released in June 2020. Arabella Steinbacher has been recording exclusively for Pentatone Classics since 2009. Among many international and national music prizes and nominations, she has been twice awarded the ECHO Klassik.

As CARE ambassador, Steinbacher is driven to use music as a means to uplift and support those in need. She launched a December 2011 Japan tour in response to the tsunami disaster earlier that year. The DVD release “Arabella Steinbacher – Music of Hope” featured her outreach, and youth recitals from this tour and was released shortly after.

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

Steinbacher currently plays the 1716 'Booth' Stradivari, generously loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation

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