Mark Steinberg

Mark Steinberg has been first violinist of the Brentano Quartet since its inception in 1992. The quartet is ensemble in residence at Yale University, has performed around the world, has recorded extensively, and has won many awards, such as the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the inaugural Cleveland Quartet award and the Royal Philharmonic Society award for best debut in the UK. Mr. Steinberg has been soloist with the London Philharmonia, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Kansas City Camerata, the Auckland Philharmonia, and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, with conductors such as Kurt Sanderling, Esa- Pekka Salonen and Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Steinberg has appeared often 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, recording several of the sonatas for Philips. He revisits the complete Mozart Sonatas starting in 2025 with pianist Jonathan Biss, at Wigmore Hall in London and in Philadelphia, amongst other cities. He has also toured in Europe and the US as guest concertmaster of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Mark Steinberg has a BM degree from Indiana University and an MM from The Juilliard School; his principal teachers have been Louise Behrend, Josef Gingold, and Robert Mann. Steinberg has been on quartet competition juries at the Banff International Quartet Competition, twice at the Wigmore Quartet Competition, and twice at the Mozart International Quartet Competition in Salzburg as well as the Naumburg Violin Competition and Chamber Music Competition, and will be on the jury for the 2027 Joseph Joachim violin competition. Steinberg has been and will be mentor-in-residence for the Banff International Quartet Competition, in 2022, 2025 and 2028. Steinberg is on the faculty of the Juilliard School and the CUNY Graduate Center, and has been on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. He has taught often at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Aspen Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Steans Institute at Ravinia, and the Taos School of Music and has given master classes at Rice University, the Eastman School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, the Glenn Gould School, the Britten- Pears Institute in Aldeburgh, England, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Guildhall School in London, the Amsterdam Conservatory, the Basel Music Academy, Paris Pro Quartet, and numerous other schools.