Julia S Jacklein

Composer, educator, and visual artist

Website • YouTube • Canadian Music Centre

Contact: jj@juliajackleinmusic.com

English Bio


Julia Jacklein is a composer based in Burlington, Ontario. She writes in many different genres, including choral, chamber, art song, vocal, pedagogical, solo instrumental, and electroacoustic music. In recent years she has focused on choral and pedagogical compositions. Projects and collaborations include work with musica intima, DaCapo Chamber Choir, Choral Chameleon, That Choir, Lyrica Chamber Choir, Clarisse Tonagussi, and the Tost String Quartet.

Julia is also active as a music teacher, visual artist, and language tutor. Her love of language, visual art, poetry, and nature informs her work as a composer. Julia frequently combines music with other artistic forms of expression; in a recent project of this kind, she co-created a video presentation of original music, visual art, and poetry. Julia’s active exploration of nature has given her an appreciation of the music within nature, and she finds much inspiration in natural settings for her compositions and paintings.

French Bio


Julia Jacklein est une compositrice établie à Burlington, en Ontario. Elle écrit dans de nombreux genres différents, notamment la musique chorale, la musique de chambre, la mélodie, la musique vocale, la musique pédagogique, la musique pour instruments seuls et la musique électroacoustique. Ces dernières années, elle s’est concentrée sur les compositions chorales et pédagogiques. Ses projets et collaborations incluent des travaux avec musica intima, les chœurs de chambre DaCapo et Lyrica, Choral Chameleon, That Choir, Clarisse Tonagussi et le Quatuor à cordes Tost.

Julia Jacklein est également active en tant que professeure de musique, artiste visuelle et professeure de langues. Son amour des langues, des arts visuels, de la poésie et de la nature inspire son travail de compositrice. Elle combine fréquemment la musique avec d’autres formes d’expression artistique. Dans un projet récent de ce type, elle a cocréé une présentation vidéo de musique originale, d’art visuel et de poésie. L’exploration active de la nature lui a permis d’apprécier la musique qu’elle contient, et Julia trouve beaucoup d’inspiration dans les environnements naturels pour ses compositions et ses peintures.

Selected Compositions

Choral Music

Sudden Light (2023) — mixed choir SATB a cappella (5’30”)

·       Text by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Written for Choral Chameleon, NY

A Song in Celebration (2023) — mixed choir SATB, with piano accompaniment (6’ 00”)

·       Text by Bjørnstjerne M. Bjørnson. Commissioned by Mark Vuorinen and the Conrad Grebel University College music department

Everyone Sang (2022) — mixed choir SATB a cappella (4’54”) 

  • Text by Siegfried Sassoon. Written for musica intima

Peaceful Meeting Place (2020) — mixed choir SATB, with piano accompaniment (6’20”) 

  • With words from the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address; used by permission. Written for Central Bucks High School West Choir, PA

Stars (2019) — mixed choir SATB a capella (4’40”) 

  • Text by Sara Teasdale. Written for Choral Chameleon, NY

Far from Ourselves (2019) — mixed choir SSAATTBB a capella (6’10”)

  • Original text. Written for DaCapo Chamber Choir, ON

For They Shall Inherit the Earth (2019) — mixed choir SATB a capella (5’43”)

  • Text: St. Matthew 5:3-9 & 14. Written for Central Bucks High School West Choir, PA

Chant (2019) — men's voices TTBB a cappella (5’30”)

  • Text by Friedrich Hölderlin

Through the Forest Alone I Went (2018) — mixed voices SATB a cappella (3’13”)

  • Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; transl.  J. Jacklein. Commissioned by Central Bucks High School West Choir, PA

Requiem (2018) — mixed choir SSAATTBB, with cello and French Horn (40’00”)

  • Introitus, Kyrie, Lacrimosa, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Dona Nobis Pacem, In Paradisum

Weep You No More (2017) — women's voices SSA (4’30”)

  • Anonymous text

Chamber music

Miniatures (2022) — violin and viola (5’00”)

Miniatures (2020) — string quartet (2’30”)

A Riddle (2005; revised 2017) — flute, violin, viola, and soprano vocalist (3’53”)

  • Text written collaboratively

Beautiful Star (2005; revised 2017) — string trio with tenor and bass vocal soloists (8’10”)

  • Original text

 

Electroacoustic music

Still Falls the Rain (2022) — He composition using the elements of an aria, the sound of a river, and an air raid siren (7’00”)

Pedagogical Music

Five Pedagogical Pieces for Piano (2014-2022) — piano (5’00”)

  • Good Morning, Chickadee; Elegy for a Cat; Minuet; Puppies at Play; Snow Swirls

Keyboard Prelude (2004) — piano (2’00”)

 

Vocal music

Three Summer Songs (2017-2018) — soprano voice and piano (8’00”)

  • Northern Summer; Flower on the Wind; Dreams Unfolding; original texts. 

Wanderers Nachtlied, (2015) — soprano voice and piano (3’00”) 

  • Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe