Veronika Eberle

Violinist Veronika Eberle was a child and teen prodigy, championed at age 16 by Simon Rattle in an appearance at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. Eberle is also an enthusiastic chamber music player. Eberle was born on December 26, 1988, in Donauwörth in southern Germany's Swabia region. Her parents were both doctors who were musical, and she started violin lessons at age six. Eberle attended the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and then took private lessons for a year from violinist and conductor Christoph Poppen. At age ten, she made her concerto debut with the Münchener Symphoniker. Eberle entered the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in 2001, studying with Ana Chumachenco while also completing her Abitur (secondary school) degree in 2008. She graduated in 2012, and by that time, she had already gained a good deal of attention in the German-speaking world as a teen, thanks to appearances with Rattle and others. In 2006, she made her recording debut with Lars Vogt, Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, and others on an album featuring the Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34a, and String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36. From 2009 to 2012, Eberle was part of the Dortmund Concert Hall's Junge Wilde series. Eberle has appeared with major orchestras around Germany and beyond, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, and, when she was 20, the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has appeared at major festivals, including the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. Eberle's first chamber music partners were her brothers Manuel Eberle on trumpet and Simon Eberle on cello. She has also performed with Vogt, Tetzlaff, violinist Renaud Capuçon, and violist Antoine Tamestit, among many other top-flight players. Eberle appeared on several more chamber music recordings before making her solo debut in 2023 on the LSO Live label with Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, with new cadenzas by contemporary composer Jörg Widmann; Rattle conducted the London Symphony.
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