NYU's Steinhardt School of Music Appoints New Violin Professor

Violinist Ida Bieler will join the string faculty, effective immediately

As an educator, violinist Ida Bieler has held professorship positions at Frankfurt’s Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, and a Visiting Professorship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Currently, Bieler is a Guest Professor at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz, Austria, and a member of the string faculty at the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). Her initiative entitled the Vivaldi Project Düsseldorf, a teachers’ training program aimed at educating underprivileged children, has been awarded Germany’s coveted Ideen für die Bildungsrepublik prize in 2011.

In her new role at New York University's Steinhardt School, she joins the likes of Melissa White, Naoko Tanaka, Gregory Fulkerson, and Josh Henderson, among others as violin Music Artist Faculty.

As the first American woman appointed concertmaster of a major European orchestra — the “Gürzenich Orchestra” of Cologne — she was also a member of the Melos String Quartet and Xyrion Piano Trio. Having performed most major violin concertos with over 40 orchestras, she premiered Penderecki’s second violin concerto under the direction of the composer.

A graduate of the UNCSA studying with Ruggiero Ricci and Marc Gottlieb, she continued her studies at the Juilliard School as a student of Oscar Shumsky and Felix Galimir. She is a top prize winner at Rome’s International Competition "Valentino Bucchi" and New York’s Concert Artists Guild Award, among others.

She has recorded a number of solo and chamber recordings with labels including Naxos, MDG, Harmonia Mundi Musique, Coviello, and Genuin, garnering awards like the Cannes Classical Award and Echo Klassik Preis.