Ludwig van Beethoven : Violin Concerto in D major op.61
Violin : Arabella Steinbacher
Conductor : Walter Weller
2009, Madrid, Spain
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 Chumachenko.
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‘sFreundeskreis (“Circle of friends”).
Steinbacher currently plays the “Booth” Stradivari (1716) provided by the Nippon Music Foundation.
Classical and Sacred Music 