Violinist Eva Burmeister has thrilled and moved audiences all over the world as a recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. Currently Ms. Burmeister is a member of ROCO in Houston, Texas, and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in New York City.

From 2012 until 2022, Ms. Burmeister was a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Maestro Manfred Honeck. From 2006 until 2012, she was an Associate Musician of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City under Maestro James Levine. In February of 2000 Maestro Herbert Blomstedt appointed Ms. Burmeister to the 1st violin section of the internationally acclaimed Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany where she became the first, American, female member. Ms. Burmeister has also performed with the All-Star Orchestra in New York City, an orchestra comprised of leading orchestra musicians from across the United States who record and film orchestral repertoire under Maestro Gerard Schwarz for PBS, Kahn Academy, educators, and students.

While living in Germany, Ms. Burmeister frequently performed and toured with Ensemble Modern, a small contemporary ensemble based in Frankfurt. In addition, she was a member of the Neuisches Bachisches Collegium Musicum, a conductorless group specializing in Baroque music and the Leipizger Sinfonietta, a 13-member ensemble specializing in contemporary music which frequently tours Europe and records for the MDR label. She was a founding member of a string quartet comprised of Gewandhaus musicians with whom she performed throughout Germany as well in foreign embassies on international Gewandhaus tours.

As a guest artist, Ms. Burmeister has toured and performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, and the New York City Opera. Ms. Burmeister earned a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and both a B.M. and M.M. in Violin Performance from The Juilliard School as a student of Joel Smirnoff. Upon finishing her Master’s at Juilliard, Ms. Burmeister was awarded a fellowship from Maestro Kurt Masur to study at the Mendelssohn Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany where she earned a Certificate in Music.