Julia Fischer is one of the most outstanding violinists and versatile artists of our time. We meet her at the Rheingau Music Festival 2022 for a concert by the Julia Fischer Quartet at Johannisberg Castle. In an interview, Fischer talks about her childhood, her career, her successes, playing in a quartet, her work as a professor and her many other talents. We hear excerpts from works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Andrey Rubtsov and Peter Tchaikovsky.
Julia Fischer was born in Munich in 1983 to German-Slovakian parents. She received her first tuition on the violin at the age of three. A short time later her mother, the pianist Viera Fischer, introduced her daughter to the piano. At the age of nine, Julia Fischer began studying with renowned violin professor Ana Chumachenco at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. Julia Fischer succeeded Chumachenco in 2011, thereby coming full circle.
Julia Fischer began touring internationally at the age of 15. She performed with the world’s greatest orchestras, recorded numerous albums and won prestigious prizes including the Gramophone Classical Music Award and the BBC Music Magazine Award. But solo performances with ensembles weren’t enough. Julia Fischer is also a brilliant chamber musician. Together with violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, violist Nils Mönkemeyer and cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger, she founded the Julia Fischer Quartet in 2012.
In 2006, Julia Fischer was appointed professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. At the time, this made her the youngest professor at a German university. In 2011, she was finally given a professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. Julia Fischer loves to teach. She is keen to pass on something of what she was able to experience as a child. Her students are highly successful and are already being courted by major orchestras. Julia Fisher sometimes performs together with them.
In 2017, Julia Fischer was the first ever classical musical to establish her own music platform, the JF CLUB. It’s a place where fans to get exclusive access to recordings and find out more about the artist herself.
Julia Fischer plays on a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1742) as well as a new violin by Philipp Augustin (2018).
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25 июн 2024
