Biography
Originally from Lancaster, Julia studied Social and Political Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge before embarking on a singing career, and has since performed all over the world and become established as a specialist soprano in Baroque repertoire.
She has performed Bach St John Passion at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Sir John Eliot Gardiner), and in Toronto (Tafelmusik), St Matthew Passion at Alice Tully Hall in New York (Philippe Herreweghe), Christmas Oratorio in Sydney and Melbourne with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (Richard Tognetti), BWV 202 with Music of the Baroque in Chicago (Nicholas Kraemer), BWV 199 with Bach Vereniging (Alfredo Bernadini), Mozart Exsultate Jubilate at the Cité de la Musique in Paris (Arsys Bourgogne), Mass in C Minor in Budapest (Györgi Vashegyi), Handel Occasional Oratorio at the Halle Handel Festival (English Concert), La Resurezzione at the Wigmore Hall (London Handel Orchestra), Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Richard Cooke) and at the Palace of Versailles with The King’s Consort (Robert King), Apollo e Dafne with Concerto Copenhagen (Alfredo Bernadini), Haydn Nelson Mass in the Canary Islands with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Eamonn Dougan), Haydn Paukenmesse and Beethoven Symphony No.9 with J.S. Bach Stiftung (Rudolf Lutz), and Haydn Creation in St Paul’s Cathedral with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Julia has a wide discography including recordings of Handel Messiah with the Bayerischen Rundfunks B’rock Orchestra (Peter Dijkstra), Britten Sinfonia and Polyphony (Stephen Layton) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor (Justin Doyle), Israel in Egypt with Arsys Bourgogne (Pierre Cao), L’Allegro with Kölner Kammerchor (Peter Neumann), Mendelssohn Israel in Ägypten with The King’s Consort (Robert King), Bach Magnificat with Dunedin Consort (John Butt) and also with The Bethlehem Bach Choir (Greg Funfgeld), Bach Cantatas and the Mass in B Minor with J.S. Bach Stiftung (Rudolf Lutz), Lutheran Masses with The Sixteen (Harry Christophers), & St John Passion with English Baroque Soloists (Sir John Eliot Gardiner) & the JS Bach Stiftung (Rudolf Lutz), Astro Nuevo: En Torno a Rabassa with Orquesta Barocca de Sevilla (Enrico Onofri) and Lutoslawski Dwadziesci Koled with BBC Symphony Orchestra (David Zinman) and many more.
Recent and future highlights include Handel German Arias in the Mozartfest in Würzburg, Messiah in Lisbon with the Choir and Orchestra of the Gulbenkian (Martina Batic), in Copenhagen with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir (Mogens Dahl), and all over Europe with RIAS Kammerchor and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Justin Doyle), Ariosti La profezia d’Eliseo nell’assedio di Samaria at the Wigmore Hall with La Serenissima (Adrian Chandler), Bach arias in Germany and Switzerland with Kammerorchester Basel & Vilde Frang (Baptiste Lopez) & Freiburger Barockorchester, Bach and Handel at the Wigmore Hall with Arcangelo (Jonathan Cohen) and Fauré Requiem (Andrew Manze) and Christmas Oratorio (Václav Luks) with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
