It sounds so simple: “Aged four years she received her first violin. At thirteen she began to perform in the public. At nineteen she made her debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall. She has been a star ever since.” This is how the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung summarized the meteoric career path of violinist Julia Fischer, who will be the Wiener Symphoniker’s Artist in Residence for the 2017–2018 season.
