Austrian-American violin virtuoso & composer Fritz Kreisler entered the Vienna Conservatory at age 7 to study with Anton Bruckner, Joseph Hellmesberger and Jakob Dont. Later he furthered his studies in composition

  “It is with great regret that chief conductor Kirill Petrenko has to cancel his participation in the New Year’s Eve (NYE) concerts of the Berliner

  Johanna Pichlmair has been playing in the first violin section since March 2020. The 31-year-old violinist studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg under Igor Ozim,

  Born in Moson, Hungary, in 1873, Carl Flesch received his first violin lessons at age five from a saddler who played at the local church.