Julia Lindner / Viola
The violist Dorothee Julia Lindner was born in 1990 in Grimma and raised in Naunhof near Leipzig. From the age of three she received regular violin lessons from Christine Schmidt at the Johann Sebastian Bach music school in Leipzig. Starting in 2001 she also took lessons on a consultative basis with Prof. Bruno Steinschaden (Mozarteum Salzburg). She was a regular prize winner in the category of violin solo at the youth music competition Jugend musiziert and at age 10 performed in the Great Hall of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig during a student meeting for German and French students.
Having been accepted at the Saxon State School of Music in Dresden in 2004, she selected the viola as her main instrument and was taught by Prof. Uta Vincze (University of Music, Dresden) and Piotr Szumiel (Apollon Musagete Quartet). In addition, she regularly participated in international master classes, for example with Prof. Stefan Fehlandt (Vogler Quartett, University of Music Stuttgart) and Prof. Jerzy Kosmala (USA). Her musical talent earned her a 2nd prize at the national level of the Jugend musiziert competition in 2007, and led her to the final round of the Maria-Pajmans-Kania Music Culture Award in 2008.
After finishing high school in 2009, she began her studies at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Since then she has been a student of Prof. Pauline Sachse (principal viola, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, professor in Berlin and Dresden).
In addition to her solo training, Julia Lindner has always spent considerable time playing in ensembles and orchestras. She has played in several chamber music ensembles and orchestras such as the Youth Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig, the Youth Orchestra of Saxony and the National Youth Orchestra. She played principal viola for the Dresden Youth Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the Volke-Quartet. Currently, she primarily plays in a string quartet (LUMIS Quartett), in a string trio (Atré Trio Berlin) and in a duo with Argentinean pianist Emilio Peroni. Since 2010 she has been a member of the Young German Philharmonic Orchestra, where she has already performed as first and second principal viola. In September 2013 she got accepted for the orchestra-academy of the RSB Berlin (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra) and is also playing as substitute in the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
Another main aspect of her musical interests lies in Early Music. She has performed on several occasions with well-known musicians specializing in Italian Baroque such as Giuliano Carmignola, Ivano Zanenghi and Stefano Montanari. In the German Youth Baroque Orchestra Bachs Erben (Bach's heirs) she worked together with members of the Berlin Academy of Early Music including Raphael Alpermann, Georg Kallweit, Jan Freiheit and Stephan Mai.
Concert tours have taken her to Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland and China.
Julia Lindner plays a viola made in 2004 and a Baroque viola made in 2011 by master violin maker Udo Kretzschmann (Markneukirchen, Germany) and uses a Tourte bow made by Hans Karl Schmidt (Dresden, Germany) and a Baroque bow made by Ina Keller (Hamburg, Germany).