Read a review of The Sound of Memory in Strings Magazine: “her personal and musical reminiscences are intimate and vulnerable…”
Read a review of The Sound of Memory in the Strad Magazine: “The Sound of Memory is a book for the shelves, to dip into, to refresh one’s own thinking and to realise that being a performing artist is a complicated, thinking process…”
Listen to Rebecca give an interview with Classical Post about her book and the complexities of life as a musician (including where to get the best Negroni in her neighborhood and the necessity of chocolate and dance parties).
Preorder The Sound of Memory now from the Ohio State University Press website! I’m so thrilled to have my first book out in the world in spring 2022. Here is the book description: In The Sound of Memory, concert violinist Rebecca Fischer wrestles with the life of a performing artist in the twenty-first century, the physical and material components of memory, the nature of musical inheritance, and the gifts and pressures of a calling that runs generations deep. From memories of breastfeeding on concert tours, to the surprising ways her body remembers music she heard in the womb, to witnessing her children’s own evolving musicianship, Fischer shares her perspective as the first violinist of the renowned Chiara String Quartet and parent to young people exploring their gender identities amidst social upheaval and a pandemic. As she revisits geographies that have left marks on her life and creative practice over the years, she examines what we owe to our families, our communities, our art, and ourselves—ultimately exhorting us to consider both the individual and communal resonances of artistic expression and the meaning it brings to our shared lives.
From the March/April 2020 issue of Strings Magazine.
From the January/February 2020 issue of Strings Magazine.
Balancing structure and freedom in the practice room.
On the Beauty Tree, a way to challenge and heighten artistic expression.
On embracing change and moving onto a post string quartet life, in SHAR’s music blog.
On The Afield’s trip to the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe.
On adapting the organizational system of Scrum for the intimate world of chamber music.