From her status among the world’s leading violinists as a soloist and chamber musician to her role as artistic director and esteemed professor – Julia Fischer embodies artistic versatility to perfection. With her extraordinary virtuosity, her passion for music and her great versatility, she has carved out a unique place for herself amongst the greats of the music world. She has been honoured with numerous prestigious awards such as the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the Deutsche Kulturpreis and the Bayerische Maximiliansorden, which recognise her role as an outstanding cultural ambassador. She is also in high demand for cross-cultural events, for example, she performed at the 2023 Nobel Prize award ceremony.

Early on in her career, Julia Fischer set a milestone by winning first prize at the International Yehudi Menuhin Competition in 1995. Since then, she has conquered the world’s stages and has appeared as a guest with the most prestigious orchestras where she collaborates with renowned conductors.

As a passionate chamber musician, Julia Fischer has forged close musical partnerships with, amongst others, Yulianna Avdeeva, Jan Lisiecki, Daniel Müller-Schott and her own quartet with Nils Mönkemeyer, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Benjamin Nyffenegger. She conducts orchestras such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra from the leader’s desk. Since 2024, she has also taken on the role of artistic director of the »Boswiler Sommer« festival in Switzerland.

Julia Fischer’s extraordinary talent has also been recognised in her numerous recordings. She has been honoured with major awards such as the BBC Music Magazine Award, the Gramophone Award and the German Record Critics’ Award. Since 2017, she has been presenting her masterpieces exclusively on the JF CLUB, her own platform where she showcases her latest recordings and offers members a personal insight into her work.

Julia Fischer not only performs as an acclaimed violinist but also takes her role as a mentor seriously. Through masterclasses and her founding of the Kindersinfoniker, she opens the doors to the world of classical music for the youngest musicians.

Julia Fischer began her musical training at the age of three. She first took violin lessons and, shortly afterwards, piano lessons from her mother Viera Fischer. At the age of nine, she became a junior student of the renowned violin professor Ana Chumachenco. She has since succeeded her as a professor at Munich College of Music and Performing Arts.

Julia Fischer brings music to life on her 1742 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin and a modern violin by Philipp Augustin made in 2018.

As one of the leading conductors of opera and concert repertoire, Omer Meir Wellber regularly works with renowned orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra or the Swedish Radio Symphony. Since 2025, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg Staatsoper and the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester. His first opera production there in autumn 2025 was Schumann’s ›Das Paradies und die Peri‹. The programme with the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester centres on the »multi-faceted concept of performance«. This is complemented by the new ›Die Blaue Woche‹ festival featuring chamber concerts and philharmonic concerts, with contemporary commissioned works woven into nearly all programmes. 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 and, until 2022, Principal Guest Conductor of the Semperoper Dresden. Highlights from his time as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2019 to 2022 included concerts at the BBC Proms. In 2022, the multi-talented conductor 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. Omer Meir Wellber has enjoyed a close artistic friendship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years, as well as an intensive collaboration – most recently during a joint orchestra tour with the violinist Hilary Hahn, and conducting the Kammer­philharmonie at the Neuschwanstein Concerts in 2026 and the BBC Proms in London.