Hailed by The New York Times as "a violinist of soul and patrician refinement", Maria Bachmann has been heard as featured soloist worldwide and has had the rare distinction of being profiled by Time magazine, as well as by Mirabella and CD Review. She has also been honored by Musical America and New York’s Newsday as “Outstanding Artist of the Year.” Ms. Bachmann has made numerous solo recordings and her latest cd, The Red Violin, was released in February 2007. The Red Violin cd was chosen by BBC Music Magazine as the "North American CD of the Month" in May 2007. Her recital disc FRATRES was reissued by RCA Red Seal in 2005. She has recorded solo concerto and recital CDs for BMG/Conifer, BMG/Catalyst, Endeavour Classics, Argo, Koch, and Connoisseur Society. Her performance credits include engagements as soloist with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, with the St. Louis Symphony, and in recital at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital hall and Town Hall in New York, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and at the Phillips Gallery and Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. An eminent champion of new music, composers George Rochberg, Leon Kirchner, Paul Moravec and Sebastian Currier have all written works for her and she has performed and recorded John Corigliano's RED VIOLIN Concerto. She has won first prizes at The Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna, The Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York and The Pro Musicis International Award. Maria Bachmann studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian and Szymon Goldberg, and was awarded the Fritz Kriesler Prize for outstanding graduating violinist. She performs on a 1782 violin by Niccolo Gagliano.