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 concert repertoire. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburger Staatsoper and the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester. To mark the start of his tenure, he staged Schumann’s ›Das Paradies und die Peri‹ in collaboration with director Tobias Kratzer. The programmes with the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester centre on the ‘»multi-faceted idea of a play«, complemented by ›Die Blaue Woche‹ festival; six chamber concerts and ten philharmonic concerts into which contemporary commissioned works are woven. Until 2024, Wellber was Music Director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo where he was awarded the Special Prize of the Italian Association of Music Critics. Prior to that, he was Music Director of the Volksoper Wien, Principal Guest Conductor of the Semperoper Dresden and Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, where he conducted at the BBC Proms, among other engagements.

In 2022, Wellber was the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s featured artist, appearing there both as a conductor and as a performer on the accordion, harpsichord and piano. He regularly works with renowned orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symohoniker and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. This conductor has enjoyed a close artistic friendship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years, as well as an intensive collaboration on numerous joint projects. He has toured with the orchestra on several occasions, including at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festival Internacional Santander in Spain and various others.