Julia Rebekka Adler, maiden
name Mai, the best-placed German competitor at the 2004
ARD Music Competition in the category viola, started
viola lessons at the age of six, and was soon to win
several First Prizes ('1.Bundespreis') in Germany´s
'Jugend musiziert' competition. She studied with Kim
Kashkashian and Johannes Lüthy in Freiburg (1994-2000),
and with Hartmut Rohde at the Berlin University of the
Arts (2001-2007). She received additional impulses by
Yuri Bashmet in Siena (2003/2004). 2002, she won the
First Prize at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Competition for viola and the Ulrich Koch Prize at the
Marschner Competition. In 2001 she was awarded both
special prizes at the Gerhard Taschner Competition, and
won 2nd prize with the 'Kuss Quartett' at the
International String Quartet Competition in Banff. In
2005 and 2006 she was selected for the 'Bundesauswahl
Junger Künstler' (as soloist, and in duo with the pianist
Axel Gremmelspacher). Presently, she is co-principal
violist with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, a member
of the 'Berliner Solistenoktett', and forms a duo with
the pianist Jascha Nemtsov.
