Virtuoso Violinist Julia Fischer: A TV PORTRAIT

Julia Fischer, born in Munich, Germany, is of German-Slovakian parentage. Fischer began her studies before her fourth birthday, when she received her first violin lesson from Helge Thelen; a few months later she started studying the piano with her mother, Viera Fischer. Fischer said, “my mother’s a pianist and I wanted to play the piano as well, but as my elder brother also played the piano, she thought it would be nice to have another instrument in the family. I agreed to try out the violin and stayed with