Classical music spotlight: Violinist Julia Fischer at Schubert Club

For the Minnesota Star Tribune
February 11, 2012 at 10:56PM
Julia Fischer, violinist
Julia Fischer, violinist (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Though not quite 30, German violinist Julia Fischer has long been familiar to Twin Cities area audiences. And considering that she won the Yehudi Menuhin Competition at age 11, her debut on the Schubert Club's International Artist Series could almost be called "belated." Together with Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska, Fischer (herself an accomplished pianist) will play works of Mozart (Sonata in B-flat major, K. 454) Schubert ("Rondo brillant" in B minor), Debussy (Sonata in G minor) and Saint-Saëns (Sonata No. 1).

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