Praised as “bright, clean, and characterful” by The Strad and “grippingly precise gleaming” by the San Francisco Classical Voice, violinist Oliver Neubauer is the First Prize winner of the 2023 Susan Wadsworth Young Concert Artists International Auditions and is managed worldwide by Young Concert Artists as a YCA Jacobs Fellow.
A current student of Mihaela Martin at the Kronberg Academy, Oliver is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied with Li Lin, Itzhak Perlman, and Donald Weilerstein, and was a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship.
Oliver has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Delaware Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, the Sound Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, the Symphony of Westchester, the Springfield Symphony, and the Juilliard AXIOM Ensemble. He has captured top prizes in the Hellam Competition, ArsClassica International Competition, National YoungArts Competition, and received the Prix de l’APCAV at the Verbier Festival.
Oliver has appeared at festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, Verbier Academy, Kronberg masterclasses, Music@Menlo, and Chamber Music Northwest. Highlights of his upcoming season include his Carnegie Hall recital debut in Weill Hall as recipient of the Juilliard School’s 2024 Gershen Cohen Award, featuring an all-French program and including a dance collaboration. He will also be making his concerto debuts with the Brevard Philharmonic and the Kennett Symphony, perform a violin-percussion recital at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, and tour around the U. S. with both YCA on Tour and Musicians from Marlboro.
Oliver performs on the 1727 “Milstein” Guarneri Del Gesù violin – one of four violins Nathan Milstein played during his lifetime – thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Ryuji Ueno Foundation and Rare Violins in Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative.
