Oliver Neubauer

Biography supplied for the 2026 competition.

Hailed as “a shining example of the whole package…superb technique, a big glistening, singing tone, and the kind of taste and judgement that make a musician always worth hearing” (New York Classical Review) and “bright, clean, and characterful” (The Strad), violinist Oliver Neubauer is the First Prize winner of the 2023 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. A 2025 laureate of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon and 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 as a Kovner Fellow. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Brevard, Delaware, Westchester, and Springfield Symphonies and the National Repertory Orchestra, and received the Prix de l’APCAV at the Verbier Festival. A passionate chamber musician, Oliver is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program. He has performed alongside artists including Itzhak Perlman, Sir András Schiff, Steven Isserlis, Gidon Kremer, Torlief Thedéen, Carter Brey, Fred Sherry, Shai Wosner, and Enrico Pace. His festival appearances include Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Verbier Academy, Four Seasons, Perlman Music Program, and Chamber Music Northwest. Recent seasons have included recital debuts at Carnegie’s Weill Hall (as recipient of the Gerschen Cohen Award), Merkin Hall, the Morgan Library, the Kennedy Center, and chamber music appearances at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. He performs on the 1727 “Milstein” Guarneri del Gesù violin, on loan from the Ryuji Ueno Foundation and Rare Violins in Consortium.