Ms Steinbacher is recording exclusively for PentaTone Classics. Her first CD on that label, released in autumn 2009, included Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A Minor and Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1, as well as Dvořák's Romance in F Minor, with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin led by Marek Janowski. Among Ms Steinbacher's numerous recording honors are 2 ECHO-Klassik Awards (considered to be the German equivalent of the Grammy) "Les Chocs du Mois" from Le Monde de la Musique, and two German Record Critics Awards as well as the prestigious Editors Choice Award from Grammophone magazine.

Arabella Steinbacher is appearing with the leading international orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, WDR Symphony Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra; she has worked with the world's leading conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Herbert Blomstedt, Marek Janowski, Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, among others.

Highlights of the 2010-11 season included Ms Steinbacher's Carnegie Hall début with the conductor-less Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and her subscription débuts with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra, as well as her début at Maggio Musicale in Florence under Zubin Mehta and her debut with the Israel Philharmonic. Highlights of her 2011-12 season include appearances with the Dresdner Philharmonie, Orchestre de Paris, the Philadelphia and San Francisco Symphony orchestras and her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra.

Born in Munich in 1981 to a German father and a Japanese mother, Ms Steinbacher began studying the violin at the age of three. She currently plays the "Booth" Stradivari (1716) generously provided by the Nippon Music Foundation. She lives in her hometown of Munich, and her general manager is Tanja Dorn at IMG Artists.