Only 19 years old, Veronika Eberle is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most promising violinists to emerge from Germany in recent years.
Her future concerto appearances include debuts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Sir Simon Rattle), Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, NHK Symphony and Prague Symphony (Jiri Kout), Nürnberger Symphoniker, Frankfurter Museumgesellschaft Orchester, Auckland Philharmonia, as well as return engagements with the Bamberger Symphoniker, Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt (Andris Nelsons), NDR Hamburg, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz, Württembergisches Philharmonie, and Gävle Symphony.
In the 2008–2009 season Ms. Eberle also gives debut recitals in New York (Carnegie Hall), Paris (Theatre de la Ville), Salzburg (Mozarteum), Brussels (Bozar), Birmingham (Symphony Hall), and Gstaad Menuhin Festival. She also returns to Munich (Herkulesaal), the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele, and Weilburger Schlossfestspiele.
Veronika Eberle was born in 1988 in Donauwörth, Southern Germany, where she started violin lessons at age 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 has been studying with Ana Chumachenco since 2001.
Since giving her concerto debut at age 10 (Münchener Symphoniker), Ms. Eberle has appeared with some of Germany’s finest orchestras. Most recently she was introduced to a packed Festpielhaus at the Salzburg Easter Festival, in a performance of the Beethoven concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle. In recent years Ms. Eberle has also appeared at some of Europe’s most distinguished festivals, including Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Salzburg Osterfestspiele. Her chamber music partners include Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Tatjana Masurenko, Gustav Rivinius, and Julia Fischer.
Ms. Eberle’s exceptional talent, poise, and maturity have been recognized by a number of prestigious organizations, including the Borletti-Buitoni Trust (who awarded her a Fellowship in February 2008), 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.
Ms. Eberle plays the Giovanni Battista Guadagnini “ex-Busch” violin (Turin 1783), on kind loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Since his debut recital at the Kennedy Center, and his solo debut with the Tonhalle Orchestra under David Zinman, Oliver Schnyder has been busy pursuing an international performance career. He appears regularly as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, Japan, and China. He appears at venues in London (Wigmore Hall), New York (Carnegie Hall), Moscow’s Great Hall, and equivalent venues in San Francisco, Chicago, Beijing, Tokyo, Osaka, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Brussels, Salzburg, Zurich, Hong Kong, Lucerne, St. Petersburg, Oslo, and Milan. Mr. Schnyder also appears at international festivals such as Verbier, Schwetzingen, Ruhr Piano, Petworth, Zürcher Mozart Festival, and many more.
As a soloist, Mr. Schnyder works with the Tonhalle Orchestra, Moscow Radio Symphony
Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Music College
Winterthur, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Cologne Chamber Orchestra,
Brandenburg State Symphony, the Columbus Chamber Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Aargau Symphony Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta, Camerata Berne, Oslo Camerata, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Cappella Istropolitana, and the Southwest German Philharmonic under conductors such as David Zinman, Mario Venzago, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Semyon Bychkov, Muhai Tang, Jac Van Steen, John Axelrod, Douglas Bostock, Helmut Müller-Brühl, and Howard Griffiths.
Mr. Schnyder’s frequent chamber music partners include Julia Fischer, Veronika Eberle, and Sol Gabetta. Schnyder’s performances have been recorded for radio and television in the US, Europe, Japan, and China. He has recorded albums in collaboration with Sony BMG, Telos Music Records, Avie, Art Unity, Musiques Suisses, and Classico. Mr. Schnyder also works intensively with contemporary composers such as David Philip Hefti and David Noon.
Oliver Schnyder was a student of Emmy Henz-Diémand and Homero Francesch in Zurich and the legendary Leon Fleisher in Baltimore. Please visit oliverschnyder.com for more information.