She has performed with Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival, Musicians of the Old Post Road, The Bach Project of Ashmont Hill Chamber Music, King’s Chapel Concert Series, Emmanuel Music, the Society for Historically Informed Performance, American Baroque Orchestra, Boston Camerata, Rumbarroco, and Floyds Row, among many other ensembles.


She has appeared in numerous international music festivals, including the Casals Festival, the Beethoven Festival in Poland, Tage Alter Musik, Tanglewood, Ravinia, the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, and at the BBC Proms in London. Other musical adventures have included numerous recordings with various ensembles; serving as an instrument consultant for Carriage House Violins; multi-genre music arranging; and dabbling in fiddle, jazz, blues & rock with area bands and student ensembles. Committed to bringing music to underserved audiences, she is a member of Shelter Music Boston and has served as co-director of Eudaimonia: A Purposeful Period Band.

A dedicated educator of both historical and modern violin technique, Julia has served as the director of the Boston Early Music Festival Youth Ensemble; has led workshops and master classes in historical violin technique at the New England Conservatory; has presented recitals surveying the history of the violin and bow; has led violin classes in the study of Black composers at Hamilton-Garrett Music & Arts; and has participated in educational outreach programs, including Boston Baroque’s Classics for Kids, as well as the Handel & Haydn Society’s Collaborative Youth Concerts and Music Lecture-Performance partnership with MIT. She enjoys providing a well-rounded musical experience to students interested in the violin’s versatility in a range of styles.