The Dutch violinist Eva Stegeman (1971) studied with Davina van Wely at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she was awarded the M. Warsaw Chamber Music Award. In 1995 she was the 2nd prize winner at the National Oskar Back violin competition, performing the Beethoven concerto at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She has taken part in international seminars with great pedagogues such as György Sebök, Wiktor Liberman, Herman Krebbers, Boris Belkin and Lorrand Fenyves. For several years she was concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra of Holland.
Stegeman regularly appears as a soloist throughout Holland as well as in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, Spain, England and Denmark,with orchestras such as the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the Orfeo Orchester Budapest, the Bielefelder Symphoniker, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, the Städtisches Orchester Trier or Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Stegeman is a regular guest director of the European Union Chamber Orchestra with whom she also appears as a soloist. Furthermore she is a member of the ensemble Combattimento Consort Amsterdam with whom she has toured Europe, Japan, Mexico and South-America, and has taken part in many CD recordings as well as numerous radio broadcasts.
In 2007 Stegeman directed a series of full-staged performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Thansau, Germany. Since 2007 she is concertmaster at the chamber orchestra Sinfonia Rotterdam (formerly the Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra).
As a chamber music player Stegeman is much in demand. Outside Holland she has been invited to perform at numerous international chamber music festivals such as in Austria (Toujours Mozart Festival in Salzburg and Vienna), Italy (Spoleto, Festival Emiglia Romagna, Ravello Festival), Germany (Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival and festivo/Aschau in Chiemgau), England (the Bath Music festival), Estonia (Tallinn - Glasperlenspiel), USA (Carmel Art Festival) and Belgium (Festival de Wallonie and Flanders Festival) and the Hortus Festival in The Netherlands.
She successfully worked and performed with great musicians such as Gordan Nikolic, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Alexander Melnikov, Alois Brandhofer, Muriel Cantoreggi and Dejan Lazic. In 1998, at the invitation of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, she took part in a performance of the Brahms 2nd String Sextet with the legendary Isaac Stern.
She is a member of the Leupold Trio (baroque) with whom she recently recorded a CD for the label Challenge Classics. Also she is a founding memeber of he Cristofori Piano Quartet Amsterdam; in 2005 this ensemble made a CD-recording with piano quartets by Schumann and Beethoven for the label festivo records which received high acclaim from the press.
Stegeman is founder and artistic director of the International Chamber Music Festival Den Haag (The Hague) which yearly takes place in The Hague, The Netherlands since 2003. Under her direction the festival rapidly established an international reputation.
Stegeman plays a G.B. Rogeri (Brescia) violin from around 1680.