Sabine Stoffer is a historically informed violinist active as a freelance musician in Switzerland and abroad. Whether in smaller ensembles or larger orchestras, Sabine always cultivates and values ​​the chamber music making aspect.

Since 2025, she has been concertmaster of the French ensemble Il Caravaggio (directed by Camille Delaforge). She is the violinist of Ensemble Meridiana, plays in Rachel Podger’s Ensemble Brecon Baroque (UK), and is leading seconds in Les Passions de l’Ame (CH). With her own Ensemble Otium, which she organizes together with baroque cellist Pierre-Augustin Lay, she invites highly esteemed colleagues to participate in chamber music projects. As a guest concertmaster, she is invited to perform with orchestras such as Ensemble Cordia (IT), Cantus Firmus (CH) and Ensemble Evolutio (CH), and she also performs with ensembles like Il Gusto Barocco (Jörg Halubek), the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Germany), Capricornus Consort Basel (CH) and Theatrum Affectuum (Andreas Böhlen).

Numerous recordings on labels such as Alpha Classics, Sony, Channel Classics, Harmonia Mundi, and Aparté, among others, document her work. For example, she recorded ‘L’Estro Armonico’ as a soloist alongside Rachel Podger, and as concertmaster she can be heard with ‘Le Concert de la Loge’ (Julien Chauvin). Her duo Libro I with lutenist Alex McCartney received high praise for the CD ‘Fantasia Incantata,’ in an article in The New Yorker.

In addition to her intensive concert schedule, Sabine is a dedicated teacher and organiser. Since February 2018, she teaches Baroque violin at the Musikschule Konservatorium Berne. In orchestral courses and education programs, she focuses on ornamentation and rhetoric. Since 2007, she is the director of the chamber music series ‚Kapellenkonzerte’ in Biglen, Switzerland.

Sabine is the winner of the Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung 2008, the Marianne und Curt Dienemann – Stiftung 2008, the Steinitz Bach Prize 2009 and the ‚Göttinger Reihe Historischer Musik’ 2010/11 of the Händel – Gesellschaft Göttingen (with Meridiana). In 2011 she received the ‚Coup de Coeur’ award for the promotion of young musicians from her hometown canton of Berne and in 2018 she was named Honorary Associate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

She plays instruments by the French violin maker Patrick Robin.