“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.
Highlights of recent seasons include concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Berner Symphonieorchester, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and Israel Philharmonic, working with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Andras Schiff, Hannu Lintu, Marin Alsop, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Dalia Stasevska, Robert Spano, Maxime Pascal, Markus Stenz, Elim Chan, and Thomas Ades.
In the 26-27 season, Stephen will appear with the Musikalische Akademie Mannheim, Würzburg Philharmoniker, Mantova Chamber Orchestra, and at Wigmore Hall, Vancouver Recital Society, Paul Klee Zentrum Bern, Klosters Music, and the Shanghai Symphony’s Z+ Festival amongst others. Stephen will also perform Beethoven’s complete Violin Sonatas and Piano Trios with Andras Schiff and Julia Hagen at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, with further cycles planned at other venues including Wigmore Hall.
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.
