Julia Fischer (violinist)

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Julia Fischer (2006)

Julia Fischer (born June 15, 1983 in Munich ) is a German violinist and pianist .

biography

The daughter of the Slovakian pianist Viera Fischer, née Krenková, and the mathematician Frank-Michael Fischer received her first violin lessons at the age of four with Helge Thelen in Gilching near Munich. A little later she also began to play the piano , tutored by her mother and Ansgar Janke. Two years later she moved to the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg . There she was taught violin by Lydia Dubrowskaja. At the age of eight she gave her first violin concerto with orchestra accompaniment. At the age of nine she was accepted at the Munich University of Music , where she studied with Ana Chumachenco , a student of Ljerko Spiller . In addition to her musical training, she also completed school in 2002 at the Otto von Taube High School in Gauting near Munich with the Abitur.

Since October 2006 Fischer has been a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . At that time she was the youngest professor at a German university. In October 2011, Fischer was appointed to a professorship at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .

She lives with her husband and their two children in Gauting near Munich.

Concert career as a violinist

Julia Fischer's sponsors have included Lorin Maazel , Christoph Eschenbach and Marek Janowski since 1997 . From 1998 her international concert activity began. Fischer u. a. with the conductors Herbert Blomstedt , Asher Fish, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Ruben Gazarian , Bernard Klee, Yakov Kreizberg , Emmanuel Krivine , Sir Neville Marriner , Jun Märkl , Yehudi Menuhin , Jukka-Pekka Saraste , Giuseppe Sinopoli , Jeffrey Tate , Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas , Bruno Weil , Simone Young and David Zinman together.

Orchestras she has performed with include the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , with which she made her debut in 2003 with the Sibelius Violin Concerto under the direction of Lorin Maazel, the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Boston , Baltimore and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony , the St. Petersburg Philharmonic , the RAI Torino , the Russian National Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Young German Philharmonic , the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden , the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Munich Philharmonic . Fischer toured with the Gewandhausorchester , the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , the Dresden Philharmonie , the Orchester de la Suisse Romande and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra . With this she made her debut in 2003 at the side of Chang Han-na in Carnegie Hall , where she played the Brahms Double Concerto .

She is “ Artist in Residence ” with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under chief conductor Yakov Kreizberg .

Her chamber music partners include the pianists Milana Chernyavska, Martin Helmchen , Oliver Schnyder , Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Lars Vogt , the cellists Gustav Rivinius, Daniel Müller-Schott and Danjulo Ishizaka and the violist Tabea Zimmermann .

She played at London's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Prague Spring, the St. Petersburg Winter Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival and in 2007 at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm .

Every year she gives between 70 and 80 concerts with around fifty programs. Her repertoire includes over 40 works with orchestral accompaniment as well as around 60 chamber music works .

Julia Fischer's recording of Bach's concerts is the best-selling classic debut in iTunes history .

In the 2013/2014 season she was “Artist in Residence” with the Dresden Philharmonic . In the 2014/2015 season she designed the season as “Artist in Residence” at the PRO ARTE Frankfurt Concert Directorate, where she can also be heard as a pianist.

Julia Fischer as a pianist

At the beginning of her training, Julia Fischer played the violin and piano equally. She gave her last concert as a pianist on her twelfth birthday. By this time she had already rehearsed ten Beethoven sonatas and won three prizes as a pianist at Jugend musiziert . In her private life she continued to play the piano at the same high level. In a Czech interview in 2004 she stated that she was currently studying the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . On January 26, 2007, after a violin duo evening in Hamburg, she played an encore for four hands with her piano partner Oliver Schnyder. As “artist-in-residence” of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival , she played a duo evening with Viviane Hagner in Greifswald on July 15, 2007 , during which both artists could be heard on violin, viola and piano. She made her official debut as a pianist at a New Year's concert in Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Under the direction of Matthias Pintscher , accompanied by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, she first played the Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor by Camille Saint-Saëns and then the Piano Concerto in A minor op.16 by Edvard Grieg. She repeated her double appearance on January 4, 2008 in Saint Petersburg .

Instruments

Julia Fischer used to play a Guarneri del Gesù from 1728, on loan from the "Blue de Brasil" from the Fazenda Ipiranga, and from 2000 to 2004 the Stradivarius "Booth" from 1716, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. Today she plays an instrument by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1742 and a violin by Philipp Augustin (2011).

Recordings

released Album title / tracks Contributors Publisher / No. Type
August 2002 Johannes Brahms
  • Piano quartets
    • No. 1, Op. 25th
    • No. 3, Op. 60
 Emi Classics 5573772 CD
October 2002 Antonio Vivaldi
  • The Four Seasons
 Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Opus Arte / BBC DVD
October 2004 Russian Violin Concertos Pentatone PTC 5186 059 Hybrid SACD
May 2005 Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
 Pentatone PTC 5186 072 2 hybrid SACDs
September 2005 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Violin Concertos Part 1
  • Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
  • Adagio K. 261
  • Rondo K. 269
 Pentatone PTC 5186 064 Hybrid SACD
September 2006 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Violin Concertos Part 2
  • Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 5
 Pentatone PTC 5186 094 Hybrid SACD
June 2006 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
  • The Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2
 Pentatone PTC 5186 085 Hybrid SACD
November 2006 Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
  • Sérénade mélancolique, Op. 26th
  • Valse - Scherzo, Op. 34
  • Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42
 Pentatone PTC 5186 095 Hybrid SACD
March 2007 Johannes Brahms
  • Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77
  • Double Concerto A minor Op. 102
 Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam Pentatone PTC 5186 066 Hybrid SACD
October 2007 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, K.364
  • Rondo for violin and orchestra K.373
  • Concertone for two violins and orchestra K.190
 Pentatone PTC 5186 098 Hybrid SACD
January 2009 Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Concerto for two violins and orchestra in D minor, BWV 1043
  • Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
  • Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
  • Concerto for violin and oboe in C minor, BWV 1060
 Decca 478 0650 CD
September 2009 Franz Schubert
  • Complete works for violin and piano Vol.1
    • Sonatina for violin and piano in D major D.384 (op.137, No. 1)
    • Sonatina for violin and piano in A minor D.385 (op.137, No. 2)
    • Sonatina for violin and piano in G minor D.408 (op. 137, No. 3)
    • Rondo for violin and piano in B minor D.895 (op. 70)
 Pentatone PTC 5186 347 Hybrid SACD
April 2010 Franz Schubert
  • Complete works for violin and piano Vol.2
    • Sonata for violin and piano in A major D.574 (op.162)
    • Fantasy for violin and piano in C major D.934 (op.159)
    • Fantasy for piano four hands in F minor D.940 (op.103)
 Pentatone PTC 5186 348 Hybrid SACD
August 2010 Niccolò Paganini
  • 24 caprices
 Decca 478 2274 5 CD
April 2011 Ernest Chausson , Ottorino Respighi , Josef Suk , Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Poema Autunnale For Violin & Orchestra
  • Fantasy, Op. 24
  • Poème, Op.25
  • The Lark Ascending
 Decca 478 2684 CD
March 2013 Antonín Dvořák
  • Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53 B108

Max break

  • Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26
 Decca 478 3544 8 CD

Prizes and awards

  • 1995: 1st prize at the international Yehudi Menuhin competition, at the same time winning all special prizes
  • 1996: 1st prize at the eighth Eurovision competition for young instrumentalists in Lisbon
  • 1997: Prix ​​d'Espoir of the European Industry Foundation
Soloist Prize of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival
Beethoven ring
Diapason d'or for the Bach album
  • 2006: BBC Music Magazine Award 2006 Best Newcomer for the Bach album
Diapason d'or for the Mendelssohn recording
  • 2007: ECHO Klassik Instrumentalist of the Year for the recording of the Pjotr ​​Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
  • 2007: Gramophone Award "Artist of the Year" international award from the British classic magazine "Gramophone"
  • 2009: Awarded the MIDEM Classical Award as Instrumental Artist of the Year 2008
  • 2016: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Julia Fischer also won prizes as a pianist at Jugend musiziert .

Web links

Commons : Julia Fischer  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julia Fischer: pianist juliafischer.com (archived website, as of 2015)
  2. ↑ a b Booklet for the Mendelssohn CD
  3. ↑ Julia Fischer: Germany's youngest professor faz.net, August 4, 2006
  4. ↑ On the vocation
  5. ↑ Gerhard Summer: "I like being married to my violin". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 26, 2016, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ "You never reach your goal" - Philharmonische Blätter - Dresdner Philharmonie, October 2013, pp. 7-11
  7. ↑ Interview by Ellen Troyer with Julia Fischer on bsomusicians.org (English; May 2006; mp3; 3.57 MB)
  8. ↑ “Nepovažuji se jen za houslistku” (“I don't consider myself just a violinist”) . Interview on novinky.cz, August 25, 2004 (Czech)
  9. ^ Pilgrimage report from a violinist's concert welt.de, January 26, 2007
  10. ^ Nippon Music Foundation: Instruments , see Stradivarius 1716 Violin Booth
  11. ↑ Biography juliafischer.com (see end of text)
  12. ↑ Julia Fischer about her violin by Philipp Augustin augustin-violins.com, accessed on December 9, 2018.
  13. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for violinist Julia Fischer on magazin.klassik.com, December 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich