“From the first note of Stephen Waarts’ Brahms G Major Sonata I was hooked, and within a few bars I was moved to tears.”
The Strad
Stephen Waarts’ innate and poetic musical voice has established him as a firm favourite with audiences across the globe.
In the 2024/25 season, Waarts makes his debuts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performing Brahms Violin Concerto under the baton of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Oregon Symphony and Hannu Lintu with Barber, Orchestre de Picardie and Johanna Malangré with Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.2, and Israel Camerata and Marc Minkowski playing Bach and Mozart. He also returns to the Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Szczecin Philharmonic, working with Thomas Adès, Markus Poschner and Sir Andras Schiff.
Highlights of recent seasons include the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Berner Symphonieorchester, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Fort Worth Symphony, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Andras Schiff, Marin Alsop, Constantinos Carydis, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Dalia Stasevska, Robert Spano, Maxime Pascal, Markus Stenz and Elim Chan.
Stephen Waarts gave an outstanding debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. In a fine program of Beethoven, Bartok, Ravel and Waxman. . .
The Washington PostCritical Acclaim
Stephen Waarts’ high style made us treasure the invention in the miniatures Salut d’amour and La capricieuse
The double concerto in A minor op. 102 by Brahms then achieved reference quality with the somnambulistic interacting soloists Stephen Waarts, who stood in for an unwell Janine Jansen, and Steven Isserlis. Rarely has one heard the piece so light-footed, elegant and full of sentiment.
When he begins to play, he burns with expressive fire and tonal vitality.
