Julia Rebekka Adler

* 1978 in Heidelberg; viola player and viola d’amore player; studied in Munich; from 1994 to 2000 she studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Kim Kashkashian, Johannes Lüthy and Wolfram Christ, and in 2007 she completed her soloist studies with Hartmut Rohde at the Universität der Künste Berlin with distinction; masterclasses with Walter Levin and Juri Baschmet. In 2001 she was a prizewinner of the Gerhard-Taschner-Wettbewerb, in 2002 she received the Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Preis and in 2004 the Theodor-Rogler-Preis; she was also awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Since 2016 she has been deputy principal viola of the Münchner Philharmoniker; she is professor of viola at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 2009 she recorded four viola sonatas by Mieczyslaw Weinberg.