Born and educated in the north of England, Julia read Social and Political Sciences as a Choral Scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge before pursuing a singing career.

Julia has performed extensively as a soloist and consort singer all over the world. Recent engagements include Bach cantatas at venues including The Concertgebouw, The Sage Gateshead, Verona Cathedral, Teatro Olympico in Rome, Thomaskirche Leipzig and Cadogan Hall with Sir John Eliot Gardiner (English Baroque Soloists), St John Passion in Chichester Cathedral (Hanover Band) and Canterbury Cathedral (Sinfonia Brittanica), St Matthew Passion at Symphony Hall, Magnificat at St John’s Smith Square (Hanover Band), Purcell The Fairy Queen with Sir Roger Norrington (Camerata Salzburg) at Salzburg Mozarteum, and a recording of Lutoslawski Dwadziesci Koled for Sony BMG (David Zinman/BBC Symphony Orchestra).

Forthcoming engagements include Handel Israel in Egypt at St John’s Smith Square (Academy of Ancient Music), Monteverdi Orfeo for BBC Radio 3 Discovering Music, Purcell Welcome all the Pleasures at the Royal Festival Hall (Richard Egarr/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment) Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine in Gloucester Cathedral (Three Choirs Festival), a programme of Handel and Bach arias at the Wigmore Hall with Xacona Ensemble, and excerpts from Rameau Les Boreades and Dardanus at the BBC Proms (Sir John Eliot Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists).