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Julia's Compositions

Julia's compositions have been performed across Canada and the United States. Her music is often inspired by nature, storytelling, and spiritual inquiry, and her compositional style reflects both contemporary and traditional influences. Recent collaborations include projects with DaCapo 

Chamber Choir, Choral Chameleon, That Choir, Lyrica Chamber Choir, the Tost String Quartet, and musica intima. Three of Julia's vocal compositions were featured in the Canadian Women Composers Project. Julia is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.

Selected Compositions

 Choral Music

  • Sudden Light for mixed choir SATB. Text by Dante Gabriel Rosetti. Written for Choral Chameleon, 2023
  • Everyone Sang for mixed choir SATB. Text by Siegfried Sassoon. Written for musica intima, 2022 
  • Peaceful Meeting Place for mixed choir SATB. Words from the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address; used by permission. Written for Central Bucks High School West Choir, 2020
  • Stars for mixed choir SATB a capella. Text by Sara Teasdale. Written for Choral Chameleon, 2019
  • Far from Ourselves for mixed choir SSAATTBB a capella. Original text. Written for DaCapo Chamber Choir, 2019
  • For They Shall Inherit the Earth for mixed choir SATB a capella. Text: St. Matthew 5:3-9 & 14. Written for Central Bucks High School West Choir, 2019
  • Chant for men's voices TTBB a cappella. Text by Friedrich Hölderlin. 2019
  • Through the Forest Alone I Went  for mixed voices SATB a cappella. Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; transl.  J. Jacklein. Commission, 2018
  • Requiem  for mixed choir SSAATTBB, with cello and French Horn (Introitus, Kyrie, Lacrimosa, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Dona Nobis Pacem, In Paradisum). Completed 2018 
  • Where the Wind Cries in the Sedge  for mixed voices SATB a cappella. Text by W.B. Yeats. 2017
  • Weep You No More for women's voices SSA a capella. Anonymous text. 2017
  • How Sweet the Moonlight for mixed choir SATB with piano accompaniment. Text by William Shakespeare. Written for  Lyrica Chamber Choir, 2014


Electroacoustic Music

  • Still Falls the Rain, 2022


Instrumental Music

  • Theme and Variations for String Quartet. 2020
  • Sonata for Violin and Viola
  • A Riddle, quartet for two violins, viola and soprano vocalist; lyrics written in collaboration with a friend, 2005; revised 2017
  • 5 Pedagogical pieces for Piano. 2012-2016
  • Piano Sonata Movement (Classical style). 2005
  • Keyboard Prelude (Baroque style). 2005
  • Cello Sonata movement in E flat. 2000
  • Piano Suite Perseus and Medusa. 2000


Vocal Music

  • After A Hundred Years, duo for French horn and bass-baritone; text by Emily Dickinson. 2018
  • The Coming Dawn, trio for cello, French horn and mezzo-soprano; text by Emily Dickinson. 2018
  • Three Summer Songs (Northern Summer; Flower on the Wind; Dreams Unfolding) for soprano voice and piano, to original texts, 2017
  • Wanderers Nachtlied, for soprano voice and piano Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 2015
  • Far from Ourselves, in collaboration with Hawkins Johnston. Original lyrics. 2014

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