rebecca fischer
Rebecca Fischer, violinist in the Chiara Quartet, tours regularly in North America and Europe. Rebecca has appeared as soloist with several orchestras and 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 a Research Assistant Professor and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Blodgett Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University, and teaches at Greenwood Music Camp in the summer. 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 spending time with her husband and their two daughters. Rebecca Fischer plays on a Cremonese violin made by Carlo Bergonzi II in the early 1800s.