Veronika Eberle

Highlights among future concerto engagements include debuts with the Seoul Philharmonic (Shostakovich 1), Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg (Berg), and return projects with the Bamberger Symphoniker (Berg with Ticciati), Munich Chamber Orchestra (play-direct Mozart and Haydn), Prague Symphony (Schumann), Berner Symphoniker (Prokofiev 1 with Venzago), BBC Philharmonic, BBC NOW and Bournemouth Symphony. Veronika will also join Antoine Tamestit for a Mozart Concertante project on period instruments with Laurence Equilbey's Insula Orchestra.

Recent successes include the London Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven with Rattle), Montreal Symphony (Mendelssohn with Nagano), Concertgebouw Orchestra (Berg with Holliger), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Mozart with Langrée), Seattle Symphony (Berg with Morlot), Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (Beethoven with R.Abbado), Paris National Opera (Beethoven with Philippe Jordan), Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Ticciati), CBSO (Ed Gardner), Northern Sinfonia (Zacharias) and Spanish National Orchestra (Dvorak with Harth-Bedoya).

Recent recital highlights include London (Wigmore Hall Master Series), New York (Carnegie Hall debut series), Salzburg (Mozarteum), Munich (Herkulessaal), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Rome (Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti), Brussels (Bozar), Paris (Theatre de la Ville), Zurich (Tonhalle) and the Lucerne Festival.

Veronika is a dedicated chamber musician, with regular partners including Shai Wosner, Lars Vogt, Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Renaud Capuçon, Antoine Tamestit, among many others. She will appear at the Mozartwoche Salzburg 2015 in a trio project with Mitsuko Uchida, and in May 2016 she will embark on a major chamber music tour with the soprano Anna Prohaska.

Veronika Eberle was born in 1988 in Donauwörth, Southern Germany, where she started violin lessons at the age of six. Four years later she became a junior student at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium in Munich, with Olga Voitova. After studying privately with Christoph Poppen for a year, she joined the Hochschule in Munich, where she studied with Ana Chumachenco 2001-2012.

Veronika Eberle's introduction by Sir Simon Rattle to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival, in a performance of the Beethoven concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker, brought her to international attention. Other highlights among past collaborations include the New York Philharmonic (Gilbert), Los Angeles Philharmonic (Bicket), NDR Hamburg (Gilbert), Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Janowski), Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt (Paavo Järvi), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart (Marriner), Bamberger Symphoniker (Ticciati, Nott), Tonhalle Orchester Zurich (Michael Sanderling), NHK Symphony (Kout, Stenz, Norrington), La Fenice Orchestra (Inbal) and the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Rattle, Gaffigan, Nézet-Seguin).

Over the years, Veronika Eberle has benefited from the support of a number of prestigious organisations, including the Nippon Foundation, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust (Fellowship in 2008), the Orpheum Stiftung zur Förderung Junger Solisten (Zurich), the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben (Hamburg) and the Jürgen-Ponto Stiftung (Frankfurt). She won the first prize at the 2003 Yfrah Neaman International Competition in Mainz, and was awarded Audience Awards by the patrons of the Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals. She was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 2011-2013 and was a Dortmund Konzerthaus "Junge Wilde" artist 2010-2012.

Veronika Eberle plays the "Dragonetti" Stradivarius (1700), on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

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