Julia Fischer has belonged to the world’s violin elite for twenty years. Her artistic diversity also emerges in her work as a pianist, chamber musician and professor. She is the first artist in the classical music world to found her own music platform the JF Club.

Born in Munich to German-Slovak parents, Julia Fischer received her first music lesson on the violin aged only 3. Soon afterwards, her mother Viera Fischer began taking piano lessons. At the age of 9, Julia Fischer became a junior pupil of the renowned violin professor Ana Chumachenco at the College of Music and Drama in Munich where, in 2011, she took over as Chumachenco’s successor.

Julia Fischer makes guest appearances with the most famous orchestras and conductors across the world. She is also an enthusiastic chamber musician, from which her quartet – with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nils Mönkemeyer and Benjamin Nyffenegger – grew.

In 2017 Julia Fischer founded the JF Club, her own music platform – the only place to hear her new recordings – and where she regularly posts articles, videos and insights into her work through personal meetings. In doing so she is breaking new ground in the classical music market. As of the current season, the club’s first works will appear as a limited edition in an exclusive JF Club edition at Hässler Classic on Vinyl.

Julia Fischer plays a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin (1742) and a new violin by Philipp Augustin (2018).

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.