Violinist Julia 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, an 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 teacher, Ana Chumachenko.
In 1995 Ms. 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 Ms. Fischer steadily developed her career as an orchestral soloist and recitalist.
Listen now to Ms. Fischer in an excellent performance of the violin concerto by Johannes Brahms:
