Julia Fischer

Julia Fischer (born 15 June 1983) is a German classical violinist and pianist.Biography of Julia Fischer
site of Pentatone Music.Violinists of the century
selected and edited by music expert Harald Eggebrecht for the Sueddeutsche Zeitung Edition, 2006, catalogue of the ZVAB.Julia Fischer Violin & Piano
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3 EDVARD GRIEG Piano Concerto Julia Fischer Junge Deutsche Philharmonie Matthias Pintscher, DVD release 2 August 2010, site of the Deutsche Grammophon, review: "Julia Fischer’s Double-barreled DVD Debut: First Rank Violinist, First Rank Pianist, First Rank Fischer". She teaches at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and performs up to 60 times per year.

Biography

Julia Fischer is of German-Slovak ancestry. Her parents met as students in Prague. Her mother is Viera Fischer (née Krenková). Her father, Frank-Michael Fischer, a mathematician from East Germany, also moved from Eastern Saxony to West Germany in 1972. In addition to German, Fischer is also fluent in English and French.

Fischer started playing the violin before her fourth birthday and received her first lesson from Helge Thelen. A few months later, she began taking piano lessons from her mother. Fischer once said, "My mother is a pianist and I wanted to play the piano as well, but since my elder brother also played the piano, I thought it would be nice to learn another instrument. I agreed to try out the violin and stayed with it." Fischer also supports her mother's belief that musical education of any kind should include piano fundamentals to extend one's repertoire and knowledge of harmony, theory, and style.Violinist Fischer juggles balance, discipline
article by Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2009.

At the age of eight, she began her formal violin education at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in