In the 2013/14 season, Fischer becomes the Artist in Residence at the Dresdner Philharmonie and Wigmore Hall is dedicating to her a Perspective Series. She will perform at New York’s Carnegie Hall with the St. Petersburg Philharmonie, tour Europe with the San Francisco Symphony and Asia with the Dresdner Philharmonie as well as appear in recitals in major European venues including Musikverein Vienna, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2011, Decca released “Poeme” featuring Chausson’s Poeme, Respighi’s Poema Autunnale, Suk’s Fantasy in G Minor and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending to great critical acclaim. This highly poignant album is also the last recording of the late Yakov Kreizberg - a close collaborator of Fischer for years - conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. The recording was featured on the quarterly “Bestenliste” of the prestigious Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. This recording was preceded by the fall 2010 release of “Paganini: 24 Caprices” and her 2009 recording for Decca of “Bach: Violin Concertos” with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Upon its release in the United States, the recording became the fastest-selling classical music debut in iTunes history. Previous recordings were released on the PentaTone label. Her debut CD, a recording of “Russian Violin Concertos by Khatchaturian, Prokofiev and Glazunov” with the Russian National Orchestra under Yakov Kreizberg, won Germany’s coveted ECHO Award in 2005. Fischer recorded “Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin” in 2005 and this recording earned worldwide critical praise including the rare distinction of winning three of France’s most prestigious awards: the “Diapason d’Or”; the “CHOC” from Le Monde de la Musique- and the highest rating from Classica Repertoire. The Bach recording also saw her awarded the BBC Music Magazine Award as “Best Newcomer” in 2006. In 2007, her “Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto” recording saw her awarded the ECHO Award for “Instrumentalist of the Year”. Born in Munich in 1983, Fischer began learning the violin at age three and soon thereafter started taking piano lessons. She became a pupil of Ana Chumachenco at the Munich Academy of Music and at just 11 years old won the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, an event that catapulted her towards a career as a soloist. Throughout her career, Fischer has always maintained her piano studies. On 1 January 2008 she made her Professional piano debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt performing the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and conductor Matthias Pintscher. On the same Programme, she performed the Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No. 3- A DVD of this concert, recorded by Unitel Classica, was released by Decca in September 2010.
