Julie

Want a mailing list for your MySpace page? Click Here Julie Lyonn Lieberman's childhood immersed her in world music. Her family helped start the folk music society of Northern N.J., her cousins booked the U.S. tour for The Boys of the Lough, and her father covered folk festivals for the Newark Star Ledger as a journalist. Julie's formative years were chock full of multi-style concerts, festivals, and all-night jam sessions.She started performing at folk festivals by age 16 as a fiddler, steeped herself in jazz when she started college, and immersed herself in multi-style-oriented performances and recording projects: American and world fiddle styles, blues, jazz, meditational, and genres that defy descriptives…In the early 80s, Julie recorded with Laura Nyro on Nyro's final album, "Mother Spiritual," before recording five albums of her own original music. She is the featured violinist for Music Together's recording "Fiddle," and has composed for/performed with numerous dance and theatre companies over the years. Her music for "The Yellow House," which opened at La Mama and toured to Theatre of Nations, earned her critical acclaim.Lieberman has written 8 books; over 50 magazine articles; 5 instructional DVDs; seven hours of programming for National Public Radio (“The Talking Violin” hosted by Billy Taylor, and “Jazz Profiles: Jazz Violin” hosted by Nancy Wilson); hosted her own program on WBAI, NYC for four years presenting contemporary American composers in interview); produced numerous concerts through her organization “The Improvised Music Collective” including the first, second, and third American Jazz String Summits during the 1980s); created six recordings of original music; and performed throughout America, as well as in Canada, Guatemala, and Europe.The venues Julie has performed in have been as diverse as Omega Institute, Carnegie, Brooklyn Academy of Music, City Center, La Mama, Theater of Nations, The Other End, as well as on Broadway--from hole-in-the-wall clubs to large performance venues. She has composed for and performed with dance and theater companies as a vocalist and improvising violinist.To date, five of Julie’s alternative style string orchestra scores have been published by Alfred Publishing and are performed by string orchestras around the world (Celtic, Provencal, rock, Klezmer, and blues), and she composed and recorded the music for the exercise video "Body Logos."Her recording, "The Roaring Brook Fiddler," made in the late 80s, addressed environmental issues long before it was a popular issue to address. She will be rearranging this composition for chorus and string orchestra and bringing it to schools to create cross-curriculum projects for students in order to raise awareness about the environment and empower young people to make a difference.Julie Lyonn Lieberman is a D'Addario Elite Clincian and a Knilling Master Clinician. Her books and videos are distributed by Hal Leonard, and her orchestra scores are published by Alfred Publishing. You can learn more about her work at JulieLyonn.com .