ABOUT ME
Hello, I'm Julia!
I'm a singer, actress, dancer, choreographer, and voice teacher based in the Washington, DC area. As both a working performer and teaching artist, I love helping students discover healthy, confident singing while developing artistry that lasts far beyond a single performance.
I earned my Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with emphases in Musical Theatre and Vocal Performance from John Brown University, where I graduated summa cum laude. I am classically trained in voice, theatre, and dance, and I continue to deepen my teaching through ongoing vocal pedagogy workshops, professional development, and continued performance experience. I believe the best teachers are lifelong students.
Alongside performing professionally, I've taught private voice lessons to students of varying ages and experience levels, taught dance classes, choreographed musicals and concerts, and served as dance captain for multiple productions. I also taught music in the classroom as the Music Instructor for all grades at Potomac Classical Conservatory, where I had the privilege of helping students develop musicianship, confidence, and a love for the arts.
Whether you're preparing for auditions, building healthy vocal technique, or simply discovering your voice for the first time, my goal is to create lessons that are encouraging, challenging, and tailored to each student's individual needs. I want every student to leave feeling more confident, more capable, and excited to keep growing.
I'm so glad you're here, and I'd love to be part of your musical journey.
Something I’m Passionate About:
Every artist is tempted to make an idol of their work. With all the energy and effort we invest in the creative process, we question whether others will appreciate our work. Our worth becomes entangled with our art, and “Let me create something beautiful for you in this moment” becomes “Let me prove myself on this stage.” We invest ourselves in our art, but most people won’t get it. Most people won’t come. We struggle with an internal ache, lusting for “more,” for fame, for glory. We hide under a façade of putting on a smile, but the insecurities we face every time we step on stage—“Am I good enough? Will I ever be enough?”—are still present.
But happiness doesn’t come in fame and glory; it comes in the small, quiet moments of loving people and building genuine and honest relationships.
My hope for the art I create is that those I share it with leave with the desire to seek truth, beauty, and goodness—the true purpose of art—and to cultivate genuine relationships. This is why I perform.
I hope others see in me a desire to bring joy to those around me rather than to impress, for it is through the cultivation of art that I have found true joy in serving others.
“Heavy” by Mary Oliver
That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I went closer, and I did not die.
Surely God
had his hand in this,
as well as friends.
Still, I was bent,
and my laughter,
as the poet said,
was nowhere to be found.
Then said my friend Daniel,
(brave even among lions),
“It’s not the weight you carry
but how you carry it –
books, bricks, grief –
it’s all in the way
you embrace it, balance it, carry it
when you cannot, and would not,
put it down.”
So I went practicing.
Have you noticed?
Have you heard
the laughter
that comes, now and again,
out of my startled mouth?
How I linger
to admire, admire, admire
the things of this world
that are kind, and maybe
also troubled – roses in the wind,
the sea geese on the steep waves,
a love to which there is no reply?
