Eva Maria Steinschaden-Vavtar is a violinist whose artistic work has been shaped for over two decades by an international chamber music career, with performances on all continents. A dedicated pedagogue, she has taught violin at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 1992 and has inspired generations of young musicians through her teaching and masterclasses worldwide.
Eva Steinschaden-Vavtar received her first violin lessons at the age of four from her father Bruno Steinschaden. She studied at the Mozarteum University with Helmut Zehetmair and Ruggiero Ricci, graduating in violin pedagogy (1988) and performance studies (1989). She went on to study with Renato Zanettovich at the Scuola Superiore di Musica da Camera del Trio di Trieste, and received further musical impulses from masterclasses with Shmuel Ashkenazy, Ljerko Spiller, Thomas Brandis and Enrico Bronzi. She has won first prize at a number of competitions, including Jugend musiziert.
For over twenty years, Eva Steinschaden-Vavtar’s artistic work has focused on chamber music, particularly the duo :nota bene:, founded in 1996 with the pianist Alexander Vavtar, and the piano trio 3:0, established with Vavtar and the cellist Detlef Mielke in 2012. Performances have taken her to every continent, with over 400 concerts. As a soloist, she has performed with renowned orchestras including the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Bulgaria and the Leopold Mozart Chamber Orchestra Salzburg.
She has worked as leader of the Leopold Mozart Chamber Orchestra Salzburg, as well as being a member of various chamber ensembles, such as the Steinschaden Trio Salzburg, and as a freelance player with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
She has taught violin at the Musikum Salzburg since 1988 and at the Mozarteum University since 1992. She has also inspired generations of young musicians at the Austrian masterclasses for chamber music at Schloss Zell an der Pram, and has given masterclasses at universities and music schools in Malta, the Philippines, Mexico, India, Indonesia and China.
Eva Steinschaden-Vavtar plays a violin by Pierre Silvestre from 1840.