Arabella Steinbacher © Co Merz

Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s leading soloists, Arabella Steinbacher is known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire, comprising pieces from the classical and romantic eras, alongside modernist concerto works by Barber, Berg, Britten, Bruch, Gubaidulina, Hindemith, Korngold, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Sibelius.

Arabella Steinbacher opens the 2024/25 season with a performance of Korngold’s Violin Concerto at the Engadin Festival. Shortly afterwards she will play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the Yerevan Festival before returning to the Dresdner Philharmonie in September. Further engagements will take her to KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and to the National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan where she will perform alongside their Music Director Jun Märkl. In Europe, she performs Barber’s Violin Concerto with the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Otto Tausk. Arabella Steinbacher will also perform with the Philharmonia Orchestra London and conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Furthermore, she will return to Festival Strings Lucerne with whom she has a long-standing musical friendship. At the start of the season, she will play a benefit concert with the Münchener Kammerorchester for the Munich AIDS organisation (Münchner-AIDS-Hilfe) on the occasion of the 25th World AIDS Conference.

In February 2025, she will celebrate the German premiere of George Lentz’s violin concerto ‘…to beam in distant heavens…’ with the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Ryan Bancroft. In June, she will then give the premiere in her second home, Japan, with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra under the baton of their Chief Conductor Nodoka Okisawa. The piece, which was written especially for her, was jointly commissioned by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where it premiered in April 2023.

In Spring 2025, Arabella Steinbacher will tour with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and their Principal Guest Conductor Sir Mark Elder. Another highlight of the season is the invitation to the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra where she will play Brahms’ Double Concerto with Julia Hagen and conductor Kirill Karabits. To conclude the season, the violinist will return to Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Edward Gardner.

Other orchestras she has collaborated with include the New York Philharmonic, the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Göteborgs Symfoniker. Arabella Steinbacher 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. She has toured extensively with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken.

Arabella Steinbacher works with conductors such as 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.

Her extensive discography impressively demonstrates her diverse repertoire. Her most recent recording with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno will be released on Pentatone in spring 2025, featuring Georges Lentz’s “…to beam in distant heavens…” alsongside Beethoven’s violin concerto. Previous recordings for Pentatone, with whom she records exclusively, include a disc with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and works by Arvo Pärt and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as her highly praised Mozart cycle with Festival Strings Lucerne and ‘The Four Seasons’ of both Astor Piazzolla and Antonio Vivaldi, which was recorded with Arabella Steinbacher play-directing the Münchener Kammerorchester.

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

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Camilla Nylund © AnnaS

The Finnish soprano Camilla Nylund is one of the most sought-after singers in her fach and is a regular guest on all major classical music stages - at the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera New York, La Scala Milan, the Paris Opera, the Munich, Berlin and Hamburg State Operas, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Zurich Opera House and at the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, in Barcelona, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Tokyo and San Francisco.

The artist's repertoire includes all major parts of the classic-romantic repertoire. Especially with her interpretation of Richard Wagner - Elisabeth, Elsa, Sieglinde, Senta, Isolde, Brünnhilde - and Richard Strauss - Marschallin, Arabella, Gräfin (Capriccio), Chrysothemis, Kaiserin (Frau ohne Schatten), Ariadne, Salome - Camilla Nylund is always anew setting artistic standards. Her repertoire also includes roles such as Marie (Wozzeck), Jenůfa, Katerina (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) and Eine Frau (Erwartung).

As a concert singer, she is regularly invited by the most prestigious orchestras and performs under the baton of internationally renowned conductors, for example “Four last songs”,” Gurrelieder”, “Wesendoncklieder”, Mahler's 8th Symphony and Bruckner's “Te Deum”.

Previously unknown facets of this versatile artist can be discovered in the concert film "Great American Songbook", based on an idea by André Heller and released on CD and DVD by Naxos.

Camilla Nylund also pays a particular attention to the genre of the lied recital and dedicates her recital programs to the romantic German lieder as well as to the composers from her Scandinavian homeland.

The 2024/25 season sees her appearing in new productions of “Walküre” and “Siegfried” at La Scala in Milan, as well as in orchestral concerts at La Scala, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Vienna Musikverein and on tour with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Camilla Nylund will also be inspiring audiences again in several lied recitals, including at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Berlin State Opera and the Erl Festival.

She has received numerous awards in recognition of her artistic achievements. Since November 2022, she has held the Lotte Lehmann Memorial Ring - one of the world's most prestigious awards for female opera singers. She has been awarded with the titles of Austrian and Saxon “Kammersängerin”.

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Miah Persson © Monika Rittershaus

Since her operatic debut as Susanna “Le nozze di Figaro” in 1998, Swedish soprano Miah Persson has distinguished herself as one of the world’s principal Mozart interpreters, leaving a lasting legacy on those lyric soprano roles for which she has become most celebrated: Susanna, Zerlina “Don Giovanni“, Sophie “Der Rosenkavalier“, Poppea “L’Incoronazione di Poppea“ and later Fiordiligi “Cosi fan Tutte”, Donna Elvira “Don Giovanni” and Contessa “Le nozze di Figaro”. “Having ‘added a burnish of gold to the silvery soprano that served her so well in Mozart roles’ (The Sunday Times)”, Miah has now ‘cemented her place as one of the most intelligent Strauss sopranos of our time at the peak of her powers’ (Bachtrack), with impactful role debuts as the Marschallin “Der Rosenkavalier“ and Countess “Capriccio”.

Miah has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, Liceu Barcelona, Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Netherlands Opera, New National Theatre Tokyo and Dallas Opera. Equally treasured on the concert platform, she has performed with the major international orchestras with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Bernard Labadie, Simone Young and Vladimir Jurowski. Her recital appearances include London’s Wigmore Hall, the Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Pierre Boulezsaal, Spivey Hall, Schubert Club of St Paul, Cal Performances at Berkeley, Vancouver Playhouse and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Miah’s 2024-25 season highlights include Strauss’ “Vier letzte Lieder“ at New York’s Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, at the Muziekgebouw Eindhoven with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Sir Mark Elder and in Palermo with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana conductor Harmat Haenchen. She also gives concert performances of Marschallin “Der Rosenkavalier” with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra conductor Jonathan Nott at Suntory Hall and Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander. Recital appearances include a Schubert and Liszt programme at London’s Wigmore Hall with tenor Stuart Jackson and pianist Julius Drake and a performance with pianist Magnus Svensson at the Stockholm Konserthuset. Future plans include appearances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

Miah Persson was appointed Hovsångerska, Court Singer, by H.M. the King of Sweden in 2011.

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