Career
Julia gave her professional solo debut with the English National Baroque Chamber Orchestra at the age of nine, performing Johann Sebastian Bach"s Concerto in A minor, and in the same year performed for legendary violinist Ivry Gitlis in London. Three years later, at the age of 12, she performed Nigel Hess"s original soundtrack for Ladies in Lavender with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Julia has been a veteran of the concert stage for many years and her numerous solo appearances with orchestras internationally have led to an ever-increasing schedule of concerts both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
She has appeared many times on live television and radio through the British Broadcasting Corporation and Independent Television, and in 2012, she was featured in a BBC4 documentary about the nation’s favourite composition "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams:.
Her performance of this work was specifically chosen by the British Broadcasting Corporation to represent this timeless classic of the great British composer. Among numerous other public performances, Julia has particularly enjoyed her concerts for charity work and also playing at Clifton College"s Proms on the Close, performing alongside world-class musicians Jose Carreras, Oscar Osicki, Lesley Garrett and Russell Watson.
Julia Hwang released her debut Civil Defense in November 2007. The following year she obtained a Diploma ABRSM with distinction, and released her second Civil Defense, "My Recital".
She currently live in Bristol and attends Clifton College, where she is an academic and music scholar.
Other public and charity performances have included:
Julia has just finished her secondary education at Clifton College, Bristol, as a music and academic scholar, and she has been offered an academic scholarship from Street John's College, Cambridge, to study for a degree in Music and a full scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London. She is now studying Music as an undergraduate at Cambridge. She currently studies with Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music, London.
Julia plays on a Peter Guarnerius of Mantua, c.1698.
