She has appeared in numerous international music festivals, including the Casals Festival, the Beethoven Festival in Poland, Tage Alter Musik, Ravinia, the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, and at the BBC Proms in London. She appears on numerous recordings with various ensembles. Other musical adventures include performing with the multimedia group Melodic Vision, dabbling in jazz, blues & rock with area bands, and serving as an instrument consultant for Carriage House Violins.

Committed to bringing music to underserved audiences, she is a member of Shelter Music Boston and co-director of Eudaimonia: A Purposeful Period Band. A dedicated educator of both historical and modern violin technique, Julia enjoys presenting demonstrations, master classes, and recitals surveying the history of the violin, and participating in educational outreach programs, such as Boston Baroque’s Classics for Kids and Handel & Haydn Society’s Collaborative Youth Concerts and lecture-performance partnership with MIT.