Violine
Biography:
Julia Rebecca Adler (born May), the best-placed German participant in the ARD Competition 2004 in the subject viola, received her first viola lessons at the age of six and already at the beginning of her career won several first federal prizes at ›Jugend musiziert‹ (twice viola and once string quartet). In 1, at the age of sixteen, she recorded her first CD as a soloist (1994st Viola Concerto by Darius Milhaud, conducted by Nicolás Pasquet).
Despite her successes, she did not choose an early solo career; she finished her school education and then studied viola with Kim Kashkashian, Johannes Lüthy and Wolfram Christ in Freiburg as well as with Hartmut Rohde in Berlin and with Yuri Bashmet in Siena. In January 2007 she graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts with the concert exam and received the highest honor in the viola department that has been awarded at this university so far.
Julia Rebekka Adler was a member of numerous well-known ensembles, including the Kuss Quartet and the Pellegrini Quartet. She was a chamber music partner with Tim Vogler, David Geringas, Antje Weithaas, Wen-Sin-Yang, Karl Leister and Hans-Jörg Schellenberger, among others. She is currently playing in the Berlin Soloist Octet (with Mirijam Contzen and Jens Peter Maintz) and in the Viardot Piano Quartet. Since 2004 she has been deputy solo violist with the Munich Philharmonic.
Her openness to new music led to a performance under the direction of Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 1998 and to numerous world premieres of contemporary compositions for viola. In 2004 she recorded the compulsory piece of the ARD competition (Parthenope for solo viola by David Sawer) for Bayerischer Rundfunk. She inspired many contemporary composers to write works for viola or viola d'amore, including Wilfried Hiller and Gerardo Gandini.
Julia Rebekka Adler is also interested in discovering unknown works; in the spring of 2008 she founded the concert series ›Works of forgotten Jewish composers‹. She is the first violist to perform all of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Sonatas for Solo Viola. Their magnificent interpretations of these pieces, which are among the technically and interpretatively most demanding works for solo viola, will be released on CD by NEOS.
Albums:
ContactoTango – Pure Audio Bluray:
Sonatas for Viola Solo – Sonata op. 28:
Keepsake of Modern Age – Forgotten Modernity – La modernité oubliée:
