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).

Omer Meir Wellber is one of the leading conductors of opera and orchestral repertoire. He is music director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo and a regular guest conductor with renowned orchestras such as the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich and many others. From the 2025/26 season, he will become Hamburg’s General Music Director of the Philharmonische Staatsorchester and General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hamburgischer Staatsoper.

From 2018 to 2022, Omer Meir Wellber was Principal Guest Conductor at the Semperoper Dresden. Highlights of his time as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2019 to 2022 included concerts at the BBC Proms. In 2022, Wellber was the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s portrait artist, where he performed on the conductor’s podium as well as on the accordion, harpsichord and piano. In addition to his many international engagements, Wellber continues to maintain close ties with ensembles in his native Israel, for example as Music Director of the Raanana Symphonette, with which he is particularly committed to music education. As well as conducting, he is also active as a writer. His novel ›Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner‹ was published in autumn 2019. Wellber has already toured with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen on several occasions.