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,

  Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B Minor Op. 61 premiered on this day in 1910, marking one of the pinnacles of his career. The first performance