German viola and viola d'amore player (born 1978)
Julia Rebekka Adler (née Mai ; born 1978) is a German viola and viola d'amore player.[ 1]
Early life and education
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(October 2020 )
Julia Rebekka Mai was born in 1978 in Heidelberg , Baden-Württemberg , West Germany .
She started playing viola at the age of six with Ute-Christine Elfert in Freiburg .[ 1] [ 2] Having won first prize at Jugend musiziert (Federal German competition for young musicians), she was invited to participate at the Interlochen Arts Camp and the Aspen Music Festival and School .
From 1994 to 2000, she studied with Kim Kashkashian , Johannes Lüthy, and Wolfram Christ at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Freiburg. In 2004, she took master classes with Walter Levin and Yuri Bashmet in Siena , Italy . She finished her soloist-studies with Hartmut Rohde at the Berlin University of the Arts with highest honors in 2007.[ 1]
From 1992 to 1997, she held a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben . In 2002, Adler was awarded with the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize for viola. She later held scholarships in the Bundesauswahl junger Künstler in both 2004 and 2005.[ 1]
Career
In 1994, she recorded her first CD, playing Viola Concerto No.1 by Darius Milhaud as soloist with the Landesjugendorchester Baden-Württemberg . She has 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 . Adler 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 .
In 2001, she was awarded both special prizes at the Gerhard Taschner Competition, and won 2nd prize with the Kuss Quartet at the International String Quartet Competition in Banff, Alberta .[ 1] [ 3]
In 2004, she was rated best German violist in the ARD International Music Competition , receiving the Theodor Rogler Prize. She has been co-soloist of the Munich Philharmonic and was a member of the Kuss Quartet and the Ensemble Viardot. She performs with the Solistenoktett Berlin (a string octet with Latica Honda-Rosenberg and Jens Peter Maintz, among others), and plays in duo with the Russian pianist Jascha Nemtsov .
In 2009, she recorded the four viola sonatas by Mieczysław Weinberg .
Since 2016, Adler has been co-principal violist with the Munich Philharmonic , a member of the 'Berliner Solistenoktett' and a professor for viola at the Berlin University of the Arts .[ 4] [ 5] [ 1]
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International National Artists