Maria Bachmann
Maria Bachmann is a violinist who combines outstanding musicianship with dazzling technical command.
With a tone of exceptional purity, and a magnetic stage presence, Maria Bachmann has received critical accolades from the beginning of her career. She has been hailed as “a violinist of soul and patrician refinement.”
Ms. Bachmann has made acclaimed debuts with The National Symphony at The Kennedy Center, The St. Louis Symphony, and the Taipei and Shanghai Symphonies. In 2010, Ms. Bachmann performed Philip Glass’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with the Orchestra of The Hague in The Netherlands. Since her recital debut at New York’s Town Hall, Maria has performed recitals in Tokyo, Paris, Rome, The Kennedy Center and Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and Boston’s Jordan Hall.
Her CD features Paul Moravec’s Violin Concerto (2010) with Rossen Milanov conducting Symphony in C. Her recordings encompassing works from Beethoven to new music can be found on Sony Masterworks, Sony/RCA Red Seal, Naxos, Endeavour Classics, Orange Mountain Music, and Bridge Records. As a chamber musician, Maria Bachmann is the founding violinist of Trio Solisti (with pianist Adam Neiman and cellist Alexis Gerlach), with whom she tours and has made many recordings.
She is also the founding Artistic Director of Telluride Musicfest, an annual chamber music festival in Telluride, CO, since 2003. Ms. Bachmann was awarded first prizes at The Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna, The Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York and The Pro Musicis Award. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian and Szymon Goldberg, and was awarded Curtis’s Fritz Kreisler Prize for outstanding graduating violinist. Maria performs on a 1782 violin by Niccolo Gagliano.