de Strasbourg and tours with the Academy of St. Martin in the Field and the English Chamber Orchestra. She also debuts with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and tours with them and Maestro Christoph von Dohnanyi in Europe. She will also return to the Sapporo Music Festival in Japan. Her U.S. recital tour includes performances in Chicago, Vermont and Washington, DC. In Europe she makes recital appearances in Frankfurt, Madrid and London’s Wigmore Hall. Düring the 2002-03 season Ms. Fischer made her debuts with the New York Philharmonie, the Orchestra della Scala, the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and London’s Mostly Mozart Festival with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. In the US she also returned to the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson-Thomas and returns this summer to the Ravinia Festival for her fourth appearance. This season she also appeared with Christoph Eschenbach at the Orchestre de Paris. She appeared again with Mo. Eschenbach and the NDR Orchestra with whom she also toured South America. One of the highlights of Julia’s 2002-03 season was her tour to Japan with the Bayerischer Rundfunk and Mo. Maazel, which led to her unexpected Carnegie Hall debut. The orchestra insisted upon having her as a replacement for the Brahms Double Concerto with Han-Na Chang. Ms. Fischer has worked with such internationally acclaimed conductors as Herbert Blomstedt, Marek Janowski, Sir Neville Mariner, Zubin Mehta, Yuri Temirkanov and the late Giuseppe Sinopoli - among others - and has appeared in Europe with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskappelle, the St. Petersburg Philharmonie and the. In America Ms. Fischer has already performed with the Chicago Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl and the San Francisco Symphony. She has also appeared with New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Ravinia Festival and Japan’s Sapporo Festival. In recital Julia Fischer has appeared at Amsterdam^ Concertgebouw, the Lucerne Festival, and Paris’ Salle Pleyel as well as in San Francisco and Vancouver. Ms. Fischer’s first DVD - Vivaldi’s Four Seasons - has been released in Autumn 2002 to considerable critical acclaim on the Opus Arte/BBC label.
