Julia Fischer begins LPO residency and launches video series

Violinist Julia Fischer begins her residency with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) today (2 February), along with the launch of a new video series on her self-founded music platform, JF Club, earlier this month.

In 2017, Fischer opened her own music platform, JF Club, offering members music and content by Fischer herself. Membership, which costs €5 a month (€50 a year), offers exclusive access to Fischer’s recordings, texts, videos, and photos.

Explaining the reasoning behind the platform’s creation, Fisher said: ‘I have been involved in the classical music business for more than twenty years. I am trying to fill a new, younger audience with enthusiasm for classical music and at the same time make new repertoire accessible in an uncomplicated and direct way.’

Fischer’s new video series, JF Monthly presents short videos explaining her latest projects, as well as conversations with musical partners. Her first recording for the club, Eugène Ysaÿe's Six Solo Sonatas have been released by Hänssler Classics on vinyl and the club plans further releases.

Fischer added: ‘The JF Club is [also] aimed at… those who are somehow interested in classical music already or might be interested in it, but do not want to spend an entire evening in the concert hall or have so far refrained from occupying themselves with music because the whole trappings seem too elitist to them.’

Fischer will start her residency with the LPO this evening at London’s Royal Festival Hall with a programme of Mozart and Strauss which will also be broadcast digitally next month as part of the LPO’s digital residency.

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You can find out more about JF Club here.