Biography
Julia Fischer (born 15 June 1983) is a German classical violinist and pianist. She teaches at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and performs up to 60 times per year. 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.At the age of eight, she began her formal violin education at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg, under the tutelage of Lydia Dubrowskaya. When she was nine years old, she was admitted to the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts, where she worked with Ana Chumachenco.When she was twelve years old she played Beethoven's Violin Concerto for the first time in her mother's home town in East Slovakia, and later played it again with Yehudi Menuhin in Vienna. Beethoven was also her mother's and brother's favourite composer. Fischer's parents divorced when she was thirteen. As a teenager she was inspired by Glenn Gould, Evgeny Kissin, and Maxim Vengerov.
Filmography
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Movies 4
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TV Shows 1
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Der größte Geldtransport der Geschichte - Wie die D-Mark in den Osten kam (2020)
Peter Steiners Theaterstadl - Lügen haben lange Beine (1991)
Der Komödienstadel - Wenn der Hahn kräht (1985)
Der Komödienstadel - Liebe und Blechschaden (1984)
NDR Talk Show (1979)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1983-06-15 (40 years old)
Birth PlaceMunich, Germany
CitizenshipsGermany
AwardsEcho Klassik Award - Instrumentalist of the Year, Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
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