Mark Steinberg
is an active chamber musician and recitalist. He has been heard in chamber
music festivals in Holland, Germany, Austria, and France and participated
for four summers in the Marlboro Music Festival, with which he has toured
extensively. He has also appeared in the El Paso Festival, on the Bargemusic
series in New York, at Chamber Music Northwest, with the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, and in trio and duo concerts with pianist
Mitsuko Uchida, with whom he presented the complete Mozart sonata cycle
in London's Wigmore Hall in 2001, with additional recitals in other
cities, a project that continues for the next few years. Mr. Steinberg
has been soloist with the London Philharmonia, the Los Angeles Philharmonic,
the Kansas City Camerata, the Auckland Philharmonia, and the Philadelphia
Concerto Soloists, with conductors such as Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka
Salonen and Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Mark Steinberg holds degrees from Indiana
University and The Juilliard School and has studied with Louise Behrend,
Josef Gingold, and Robert Mann. An advocate of contemporary music, Mr.
Steinberg has worked closely with many composers and has performed with
20th century music ensembles including the Guild of Composers, the Da
Capo Chamber Players, Speculum Musicae, and Continuum, with which he
has recorded and toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe. He has also
performed and recorded chamber music on period instruments with the
Helicon Ensemble, the Four Nations Ensemble, and the Smithsonian Institute.
He has taught at Juilliard's Pre-College division, at Princeton University,
and New York University, and is currently on the violin faculty of the
Mannes College of Music.