1. Julia Fischer was born on 15 June 1983 and is a German classical violinist and pianist.
37 Facts About Julia Fischer
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Julia Fischer teaches at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and performs up to 60 times per year.
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Julia Fischer started playing the violin before her fourth birthday and received her first lesson from Helge Thelen.
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The most prestigious competition Julia Fischer won was the 1995 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition, which took place in Folkestone under the supervision of Yehudi Menuhin.
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Julia Fischer's performance earned her first prize in the junior category as well as all of the special prizes, including the Bach prize for the best solo performance of the composer's work.
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Julia Fischer started her career early, although she attended school up to the age of 19, learning mathematics and physics as well as music, and passed the Abitur in spring 2002.
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Julia Fischer has been giving concerts since she was 11 and started teaching as a violin professor at 23.
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Julia Fischer has worked with a variety of top German, American, British, Polish, French, Italian, Swiss, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, Japanese, Czech, and Slovak orchestras.
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Julia Fischer has performed in most European countries, the United States, Brazil and Japan.
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Julia Fischer's concerts have been broadcast on TV and radio in every major European country and many have been featured on US, Japanese, and Australian radio stations.
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Julia Fischer used to perform in a concert with Fischer at least once a year.
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Maazel made Julia Fischer perform as a soloist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra first at the Bad Kissingen festival and then, in March 2000, in Munich, where the competition was fierce.
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In 2003 Julia Fischer performed for the first time with the Berlin Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel as well as with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Julia Fischer has toured with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Herbert Blomstedt and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic.
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In 2006, Julia Fischer was appointed as a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
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In fall of 2011, Julia Fischer took over her former teacher Ana Chumachenco's chair at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts.
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At the 2011 Salzburg Easter Festival, Julia Fischer played the violin concerto of Alban Berg with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic.
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When Julia Fischer played the Dvorak violin concerto with David Zinman and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich at the BBC Proms on 21 July 2014, the concerto was recorded and received excellent reviews:.
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Julia Fischer plays with her usual fine sense for judicious tempos, a wide range of imaginatively applied dynamics, beautiful intonation, and spectacular technique.
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Julia Fischer is very poetic in the lovely second movement and in the outer panels she plays with a true dynamism, catching all the drama and joy in the music.
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Julia Fischer was nominated Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2007 Artist of the year, succeeding Martha Argerich and preceding Hilary Hahn.
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Julia Fischer was awarded the 2024 Rheingau Musik Preis on 4 July 2024 before a chamber music concert at Schloss Johannisberg.
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Julia Fischer is a soloist who can expertly play both the violin part and the piano part of sonatas.
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Julia Fischer stopped practicing the piano for a few months while she was preparing for the Menuhin Competition in 1995 where she won 1st prize in the junior category.
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On 1 January 2008, Julia Fischer had her public debut as a pianist, performing Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt.
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Julia Fischer performed this concert once more in Saint Petersburg on 4 January 2008.
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Julia Fischer's mother taught Fischer and her brother to play the piano just for the love of classical music.
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Julia Fischer is an incredible technician and soulful musician who does not let an ounce of ego come between the music and the listener.
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In 2011, Julia Fischer founded the Julia Fischer quartet with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nils Monkemeyer, and Benjamin Nyffenegger.
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The composers Julia Fischer spent the most time with are Beethoven, Bach, Dvorak, Schubert and Brahms.
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Julia Fischer is known for her performance of Bach's work, winning the Bach prize at the 1995 Menuhin competition and the 2006 BBC Music Magazine Awards Best Newcomer for the CD Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.
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Currently, Julia Fischer plays a Guadagnini 1742 purchased in May 2004, and a violin by Philipp Augustin 2011, which she has owned since 2012.
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Julia Fischer usually uses a Benoit Rolland bow, but sometimes a copy of the Heifetz Tourte by the Viennese maker Thomas Gerbeth for early Classical period music.
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Still after their last performance in Philadelphia, Kreizberg already had the dates and suddenly Julia Fischer, who had not even decided whether she wanted to start recording regularly, had a three-year, seven-CD contract with PentaTone, the new high-tech Dutch label headed by former Philips Classics executives, and one of the first labels to embrace the new SACD 5.1-channel surround-sound technology.
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Julia Fischer has won five prizes for her violin playing and three prizes for her piano playing at Jugend musiziert.
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In 1997, Julia Fischer was awarded the "Prix d'Espoir" by the Foundation of European Industry.
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Julia Fischer had the opportunity to play Mozart's own violin in the room in which he was born at Salzburg to honour the 250th anniversary of his birth.