Julia White

Julia has played oboe, piano and Irish Whistles for numerous concerts, services, ceremonies and events, and has performed in every continent but Antarctica! She is available as a soloist, with backing tracks, or with accompaniment from a live pianist, guitarist or cello player. She has a Masters in Music Performance from Birmingham Conservatoire, and a Postgraduate Advanced Diploma with distinction from Trinity College of Music. On completing her studies, Julia played with Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra, Chile on cor anglais and oboe, first as a guest soloist, and then as a permanent member of the orchestra. She played the extended cor anglais solos in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, receiving excellent reviews in the Chilean national press. She now freelances in orchestras in London and further afield, with orchestras and ensembles large and small, and as a soloist. She also works as a session musician, and has recorded for Britz, a Channel 4 drama, for Solar Music (music for TV/advertising), composer Tanera Dawkins (for Scandinavian TV) and Ex Animo productions (music for short film). CD and DVD recordings include The World of the Oboe on the Oboe Classics label, operatic arias with internationally renowned tenor Ian Storey and Sinfonia Musicisti, and works for narrator and orchestra for Sinfonia Musicisti. Julia also recorded the demo tracks arranged by Solar Music to accompany the collection of oboe pieces Microjazz Oboe by Christopher Norton. In her performance of the Strauss Oboe Concerto in St. John’s, Smith Square, London, she was described as ‘an ideal interpreter’ of the work: ‘This was a most assured performance, full of warm lyricism and dazzling virtuosity’ – Bob Briggs, Music Web International. Her chamber music performances include collaboration with the Carducci Quartet, and as soloist with string principals from Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra. She is experienced in providing interactive music for frail/ill elderly people and people with mental health problems, and gives concerts in hospitals and nursing homes for Music in Hospitals & Care and CW+.