Veronika Eberle violin

Fellowship Winner 2008

19 year old Veronika Eberle was born in Donauwörth, Bavaria, where she started violin lessons at the age of six. She later joined the Hochschule in Munich, where she is currently studying with Ana Chumachenco. She won the 2003 Yfrah Neaman International Competition in Mainz and was awarded Audience Awards at the Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals. Her exceptional talent, the poise and maturity of her musicianship have been recognised by conductors, orchestras and festivals around Europe. She gave her concerto debut at the age of 10 and since then appeared with some of Europe's finest orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bournemouth Symphony and the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, collaborating with such distinguished conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Yakov Kreizberg, Jonathan Nott, Paavo Järvi and Marek Janowski. Festival appearances to date include Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Salzburg Osterfestspiele, Beethovenfest Bonn and Amsterdam's Robeco Series. Highlights over the coming seasons include debuts with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, NHK Symphony Tokyo, Rotterdam Philharmonic, return engagements with the NDR Hamburg, HR Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, as well as recital appearances at the Tonhalle Zurich, Carnegie Hall New York, Herkulesaal Munich, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Gstaad Menuhin festivals. Veronika Eberle is a keen chamber musicians and her partners include Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Tatjana Masurenko, Gustav Rivinius, Julia Fischer, Martin Helmchen and Oliver Schnyder. She plays the Giovanni Battista Guadagnini "ex Busch" violin (Turin 1783), on kind loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Photograph taken by Bernd Noelle