Bio
Julia's music is often inspired by nature, stories, and spiritual inquiry, and her compositional style reflects both contemporary and traditional influences. Her compositions have been performed across Canada and the United States. Recent collaborations include projects with DaCapo Chamber Choir, Choral Chameleon, That Choir, Lyrica Chamber Choir, the Tost String Quartet, and musica intima. Julia is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.
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.
Selected Compositions
Choral Music
Everyone Sang (2022) — mixed choir SATB (4’54”)
Text by Siegfried Sassoon. Written for musica intima
Peaceful Meeting Place (2020) — mixed choir SATB (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