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 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.

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").

She has recorded extensively for PENTATONE and Orfeo.

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 – Violin Concerto and Cello Concerto; Arabella Steinbacher, 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. Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks
• 2008 Sonatas for violin and piano/"Gypsy", Poulenc, Fauré, Ravel – Robert Kulek
• 2009 Beethoven – Violin Concerto, Alban Berg – Violin Concerto – Andris Nelsons
• 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 Concerto
• 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.

External links

• Homepage Arabella Steinbacher