Rebecca Fischer
Research Assistant Professor /Artist in Residence
rfischer3@unlnotes.unl.edu
(402) 472-6862
Research Assistant Professor /Artist in Residence
rfischer3@unlnotes.unl.edu
(402) 472-6862
Rebecca Fischer, violinist in the Chiara Quartet, tours regularly in the United States and Europe. Rebecca has appeared as soloist with the Wild Ginger Philharmonic, the Prometheus Ensemble, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 she and violinist Julie Yoon collaborated to perform all six of the Solo Sonatas and Partitas by J.S. Bach. Rebecca has served as concertmaster of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony, and assistant concertmaster of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Spoleto, Italy. A passionate educator, Rebecca is on the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Greenwood Music Camp, and with the Chiara Quartet she is beginning a Blodgett Artist-in-Residence position at Harvard University in 2008. Rebecca graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in Music and Religion and holds a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School. Her primary violin teachers include Kathleen Winkler, Joel Smirnoff, and Masao Kawasaki. In her free time Rebecca loves reading books with her daughter.
