Julius Berger

Julius Berger (born 1954) is a German cellist, musicologist and an academic of chamber music and cello at the Leopold Mozart Centre of the Augsburg University. He recorded the sonatas and concertos by Luigi Boccherini, but also contemporary music by John Cage, Toshio Hosokawa, Adriana Hölszky and Sofia Gubaidulina. He is the artistic director of music festivals.

Career Born in Augsburg, Berger studied at the Musikhochschule München with Walter Reichardt and Fritz Kiskalt, then at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Antonio Janigro, before becoming his assistant from 1979 to 1982. He studied further at the University of Cincinnati with Zara Nelsova, and in a master class of Mstislav Rostropovich. He was appointed professor at the Musikhochschule Würzburg at age 28, as one of Germany's youngest professors at the time. Luigi Boccherini: Cello Sonatas, vol. 1, 2 and 3 The Unknown Beethoven: Works for Violoncello and Piano (2011) Giuseppe Tartini: Cellokonzert in A-Dur und D-Dur, Sinfonia pastorale, Sinfonie D-Dur. (with Süddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim) Johann Sebastian Bach: Sechs Suiten für Violoncello Solo - Julius Berger, violoncello, 1997, WERGO – WER 4041-2, WERGO – 280 041-2