{{short description|German viola and viola d'amore player (born 1978)}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox person | birth_name = Julia Rebekka Mai | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1978}} | birth_place = Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany | website = {{URL|http://www.maerchenbilder.com/}} }} '''Julia Rebekka Adler''' (née '''Mai'''; born 1978) is a German viola and viola d'amore player.<ref name= bio>{{cite web| title= Biography| url= http://www.maerchenbilder.com/page2/page2.html| website= maerchenbilder.com| publisher= Julia Rebekka Adler| date= | access-date= October 13, 2020}}</ref>
==Early life and education== {{expand-section|date= October 2020}} Julia Rebekka Mai was born in 1978 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany.
She started playing viola at the age of six with Ute-Christine Elfert in Freiburg.<ref name= bio /><ref>{{cite web|title=Julia Rebekka Adler|url=https://www.mphil.de/en/persons/julia-rebekka-adler.html |website= Munich Philharmonic|accessdate=12 September 2015|ref=Munich Philharmonic}}</ref> Having won first prize at Jugend musiziert (Federal German competition for young musicians), she was invited to participate at the Interlochen Arts Camp and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
From 1994 to 2000, she studied with Kim Kashkashian, Johannes Lüthy, and Wolfram Christ at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Freiburg. In 2004, she took master classes with Walter Levin and Yuri Bashmet in Siena, Italy. She finished her soloist-studies with Hartmut Rohde at the Berlin University of the Arts with highest honors in 2007.<ref name="bio" />
From 1992 to 1997, she held a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. In 2002, Adler was awarded with the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize for viola. She later held scholarships in the Bundesauswahl junger Künstler in both 2004 and 2005.<ref name="bio" />
==Career== In 1994, she recorded her first CD, playing Viola Concerto No.1 by Darius Milhaud as soloist with the Landesjugendorchester Baden-Württemberg. She has appeared as soloist with the Baden-Badener Philharmonie, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, the Philharmonisches Kammerorchester München, and the Philharmonia of the Nations directed by Justus Frantz. Adler played at the Donaueschingen Festival, in projects of the Pellegrini-Quartett, and performed with artists such as Stéphane Picard, Tim Vogler, David Geringas, Antje Weithaas, Wen-Sinn-Yang, Julius Berger, Karl Leister, and Hans-Jörg Schellenberger.
In 2001, she was awarded both special prizes at the Gerhard Taschner Competition, and won 2nd prize with the Kuss Quartet at the International String Quartet Competition in Banff, Alberta.<ref name="bio" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Banff International String Quartet Competition |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/banff-international-string-quartet-competition-emc |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |language=en}}</ref>
In 2004, she was rated best German violist in the ARD International Music Competition, receiving the Theodor Rogler Prize. She has been co-soloist of the Munich Philharmonic and was a member of the Kuss Quartet and the Ensemble Viardot. She performs with the Solistenoktett Berlin (a string octet with Latica Honda-Rosenberg and Jens Peter Maintz, among others), and plays in duo with the Russian pianist Jascha Nemtsov.
In 2009, she recorded the four viola sonatas by Mieczysław Weinberg.
Since 2016, Adler has been co-principal violist with the Munich Philharmonic, a member of the 'Berliner Solistenoktett' and a professor for viola at the Berlin University of the Arts.<ref>{{cite web|title=UdK Berlin teaching staff|url=https://www.udk-berlin.de/universitaet/fakultaet-musik/institute/institut-fuer-kuenstlerische-ausbildung-orchesterinstrumente-und-dirigieren/lehrende/|website=udk-berlin.de|publisher=Berlin University of the Arts|date=|access-date=13 October 2020|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029024301/https://www.udk-berlin.de/universitaet/fakultaet-musik/institute/institut-fuer-kuenstlerische-ausbildung-orchesterinstrumente-und-dirigieren/lehrende/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Prof. Julia Rebekka Adler |url=https://www.udk-berlin.de/person/julia-rebekka-adler/ |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=www.udk-berlin.de |language=de}}</ref><ref name= bio />
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==External links== *{{YouTube|channel=UCvIoh0teJyeKtiXD2oiMYgQ}} *[https://neos-music.com/?language=english&page=output.php%3Fcontent%3DKuenstler/Julia_Rebekka_Adler.php Julia Rebekka Adler is a NEOS recording artist]
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