Julia Rebekka Adler

Viola player Julia Rebekka Adler, née Mai, was born 1978 in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2004 she was rated best German violist in the ARD International Music Competition, receiving the Theodor Rogler Prize. She is co-soloist of the Munich Philharmonic, is member of the ‘Viardot Klavierquartett’ and the ‘Solistenoktett Berlin’ (with Mirijam Contzen and Jens Peter Maintz among others), and plays in duos with pianist Axel Gremmelspacher, and cellist Thomas Ruge.

Julia Rebekka Adler started playing viola at 6-years-old. Having won first prizes at ‚Jugend musiziert’ (Federal German competition for young musicians) she was invited to participate at the Interlochen Arts Camp, and the Aspen Music Festival. She studied with Kim Kashkashian, Johannes Lüthy and Wolfram Christ at the 'Musikhochschule Freiburg' and took master-classes with Walter Levin and Yuri Bashmet. She finished her soloist-studies with Hartmut Rohde at the 'Universität der Künste Berlin' with highest honors. From 1992 to 1997 she held a scholarship from the ‘Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben’, and was selected artist in the ‘Bundesauswahl junger Künstler’ in both, 2005 and 2006. In 2002, she was the first solo violist to win first prize at the renowned 'Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy' competition in Berlin.

In 1994, she recorded her first CD playing the viola concert No.1 from Darius Milhaud as soloist with the ‘Landesjugendorchester Baden-Württemberg’. Since then, she appeared as soloist with the ‘Baden-Badener Philharmonie’, the ‘Neue Philharmonie Westfalen’, the ‘Philharmonisches Kammerorchester München’, and the ‘Philharmonia of the Nations’ directed by Justus Frantz. As a chamber musician, she was member of the ‘Kuss-Quartett’, and played at the Donaueschingen Festival, in projects of the ‘Pellegrini-Quartett’, and performed with artists such as Stéphane Picard, Tim Vogler, David Geringas, Antje Weithaas, Wen-Sinn-Yang, Julius Berger, Karl Leister, and Hans-Jörg Schellenberger.

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=juliarebekka Julia Rebekka Adler on youtube]
* [http://www.juliarebekkaadler.de Julia Rebekka's homepage]