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Julia Fischer (born 15 June 1983) is a Germanviolinist and pianist.^[1]

Biography[change | change source]

Julia Fischer, born in Munich, is of German-Slovakian parentage. Her mother came from the German minority in Slovakia and emigrated from Košice in Slovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972. Her German father moved in the same year from Eastern Saxony to West Germany.

In fall 2004 the label PentaTone released Julia Fischer's first CD: Russian violin concertos with Yakov Kreizberg and the Russian National Orchestra.

Julia Fischer began her studies before her fourth birthday, when she received her first violin lesson from Helge Thelen; a few months later she started studying the piano with her mother Viera Fischer. Fischer said, 'my mother's a pianist and I wanted to play the piano as well, but as my elder brother also played the piano, she thought it would be nice to have another instrument in the family. I agreed to try out the violin and stayed with it.'^[2] She began her formal violin education at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg. At the age of nine Julia Fischer went to the Munich Academy of Music.

Among the most prestigious competitions that Julia Fischer has won are the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition under Lord Yehudi Menuhin's supervision, where she won both the first prize and the special prize for best Bach solo work performance in 1995 and the Eighth Eurovision Competition for Young Instrumentalists in 1996, which was broadcast in 22 countries from Lisbon. In 1997 Julia Fischer was awarded the “Prix d‘Espoir” by the Foundation of European Industry. She recently had the opportunity to play Mozart's own violin in the room in which he was born at Salzburg to honour his 250th birthday.

Her repertoire (from Bach to Penderecki, from Vivaldi to Shostakovich), contains over 40 works with orchestra and about 60 works of chamber music.

Instrument[change | change source]

At the moment she plays on a Guadagnini (See link below) made in 1750 which she bought in summer 2004.^[3]For four years since 2000, she had been using a Stradivarius, the 1716 Booth, on loan from Nippon Music Foundation. Before she had the Strad, she played a Guarneri del Gesù and a Gagliano. She uses two bows, one a copy of the Heifetz Tourte by the Viennese maker Thomas Gerbeth, the other a French bow which she uses when she needs to send the Tourte bow away to be rehaired.^[4]

Prizes and honours[change | change source]

Julia Fischer has won five prizes for her violin playing and three prizes for her piano playing a.o. at Jugend musiziert. She won all eight competitions she entered.

• 1995: 1st Prize at the international Yehudi Menuhin competition, in addition to a special prize, 'Best Bach Solo-work'. Music journalist Edward Greenfield said, 'I first heard Julia Fischer in 1995 as a 12-year-old in the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. Not only did she win outright in the junior category, she was manifestly more inspired than anyone in the senior category.'^[5]
• 1996: Winner 8th Eurovision Competition for Young Instrumentalists in Lisbon
• 1997: Prix d'Espoir the prize of the European music industry
• 1997: Soloist prize of the festival 'Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania'
• 1998: EIG Music Award
• 2000: Promotion prize Deutschlandfunks
• 2005: ECHO Klassik Award for the CD Russian Violin Concertos
• 2005: Winner of the Beethoven ring
• 2006: During the celebrations of Mozart's birthday in his hometown Salzburg, Fischer played on Mozart's violin (with Daniel Müller-Schott and Jonathan Gilad). About the event she says: 'During the first hour I couldn't play anything I wanted, because during the days of Mozart the violins were a lot shorter and I wasn't used to that'.
• 2006: 'BBC Music Magazine Awards 2006 Best Newcomer' for the CDJohann Sebastian Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (BWV 1001–1006). The jury said, “There are many recordings of Bach's works for solo violin but rarely do they reach such breathtaking heights of musicianship as this one. Julia Fischer is an incredible technician and soulful musician who does not let an ounce of ego come between the music and the listener.”
• 2007: The Classic FM Gramophone Awards Artist of the Year.
• 2007: ECHO Klassik Award for the CD Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

Recordings[change | change source]

After releasing ten CDs for PentaTone her eleventh CD was released by Decca.^[6][7][8]

Influences[change | change source]

She considers Maxim Vengerov, Evgeny Kissin, and Glenn Gould to be among her greatest influences.

Family[change | change source]

Mother: Viera Fischer, maiden name Krenková, born in Nové Zámky Slovakia, pianistFather: Frank-Michael Fischer, a university-educated mathematician

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References[change | change source]

1. ↑[1]
2. ↑What's On in London, 20 April 2005
3. ↑WQXR interview on January 4, 2006^{[permanent dead link]}
4. ↑'Strings magazine, May 2006, No.139'. Archived from the original on 2007-08-17. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
5. ↑Russian Violin Concertos CD review from Gramophone magazine, January 2005
6. ↑Violinkonzerte Bwv 1043/1041/1042/1060, Amazon.de
7. ↑Bach: Violin Concertos / Julia Fischer, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, et al. CD, Cd Universe
8. ↑Presto Classical Biography, Presto Classical

Other websites[change | change source]

• Julia Fischer's homepageArchived 2005-12-18 at the Wayback Machine
• Audio interview from May 2006 from the website of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Musicians site
• article featured in Strings magazine, May 2006, No. 139Archived 2007-08-17 at the Wayback Machine
• [2]Archived 2008-02-29 at the Wayback Machine Audio interview and Bach performance at WQXR in January 2006

Artist Biography by Robert Cummings

Julia Fischer is one of the leading violinists to have emerged at the turn of the twenty first century. Although she began gaining notice with competition prizes and concert appearances from 1995, she achieved international renown for her 2003 New York appearances with conductor Lorin Maazel at both Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Mpeg streamclip alternative mac catalina.

Fischer was born in 1983, in Munich, Germany. She began taking lessons on the violin at age 3 from Helge Thelen, and at 4 began simultaneous studies on the piano with her mother, Viera Fischer, a talented amateur pianist. Young Julia's first advanced studies on the violin came a few years later in Augsburg, at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory; at 9, she began taking instruction at the Munich Academy of Music. Among her most important teachers there has been violin virtuoso Ana Chumachenco.

In 1995 Fischer won first prize at the International Yehudi Menuhin Competition, where she also captured a special prize for best performance of a J.S. Bach solo work. The following year, in Lisbon, she won first prize at the Eurovision Competition for Young Instrumentalists, an event broadcast widely throughout Europe. Other important prizes followed as Fischer steadily developed her career as an orchestral soloist and recitalist.

She gave regular concerts with major symphony orchestras beginning in the late '90s in both Europe and the United States. 2003 was a pivotal year in her career: in the aforementioned concerts with Lorin Maazel, where she played the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall and the Brahms Double Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and cellist Han-Na Chang at Carnegie Hall, she convincingly established her credentials as one of the most talented violinists of her generation.

Thereafter, she made concert tours with many of the world's finest orchestras, including the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (under Neville Marriner), the Gewandhaus Orchestra (Herbert Blomstedt), and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Her first major recording was a 2001 DVD of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, with Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. In 2004 she began recording exclusively for PentaTone Classics, her first disc featuring performances of the Prokofiev First Violin Concerto, as well as Khachaturian and Glazunov concertos. Subsequent recordings included a disc of solo works by J.S. Bach, Brahms' chamber music, violin concerto and Double Concerto, and the Mozart Violin Concertos.

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Touring keeps Fischer busy, with dates in Europe and the U.S. during 2010-2011, including recitals with pianist Milana Chernyavska and also with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski.

Julia Fischer Four Seasons Vivaldi

Fischer has played many violins on loan, including a Ventapane, a Gagliano, a Testore, a Guarneri del Gesu, and a Stradivarius, though she owns a 1742 Guadagnini, which she purchased in London in 2004, and a 2011 violin by Philipp Augustin, which she has played since 2012.