Mannes Guitar Music at The Americas Society

The Mannes New York Guitar Seminar opened with its annual evening concert at the Americas Society, featuring Artistic Directors Michael Newman and Laura Oltman of the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo and Brasilian classical guitarist … Read more…

Cover Story on Leo Brouwer

Julia’s (photograph and) interview with legendary Cuban conductor-composer-guitarist Leo Brouwer is the featured story for the May 2018 issue of Classical Guitar magazine, which can be found at your local Barnes & Noble bookstore. * * * … Read more…

Sylwia & The Troubadours

Last year New York-based guitarist and singer-songwriter Sylwia Kloc and her band, The Troubadours, gathered for their first album photo shoot.  The Troubadours include percussionist Katherine Stock and cellist Anastasia Golenisheva. Kloc, who studied classical … Read more…

March 24-25, 2018 Concert & Lecture

Julia will be performing at Buffalo State College on Saturday, March 24, 2018, 7:30-9:00 PM, at Ciminelli Recital Hall and she will be giving a lecture on her book, My First Guitar:  Tales of True Love … Read more…

Cover Story on Antigoni Goni

Julia’s interview with classical guitarist and Royal Conservatory of Brussels professor Antigoni Goni is now on the stands in the Spring 2018 issue of Classical Guitar Magazine. * * *

Julia’s CDs on Bandcamp

Julia’s CDs/tracks featuring her solo instrumental electric guitar music are available for download from Bandcamp. Check out the player below. Empire of Light is her most recent CD release.  Smoke & Steel is a compilation … Read more…

Cover Story on The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo

Julia’s cover story on The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo‘s 40th Anniversary is featured in the Winter 2017 issue of Classical Guitar–arriving on newsstands in early December.

At Home with Deepak Chopra and Friends

Home: Where Everyone is Welcome (Grand Central Publishing) by Deepak Chopra, MD, Kabir Sehgal and Paul Avgerinos is a small book with a big heart that features a collection of thirty-four poems, accompanied by a … Read more…

2017 WCGF – Rock & Blues Winner Interviews

The rock division judges for the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival were: Wisconsin-based guitarist and instructors, Roger Brotherhood and Matt Schroeder; and Milwaukee-based guitarists and instructors Peter Mac, Peter Roller, John Shiely, Steve Roberts, Michael … Read more…

2017 WCGF Jazz Winner Interviews

The jazz division judges for the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival included guitarist, composer and former Music Director of The Tonight Show Band, Kevin Eubanks, Hal Leonard jazz instructional series author Mike DeRose, Milwaukee-based jazz … Read more…

2017 WCGF Fingerstyle Guitar Winner Interviews

For the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival Fingerstyle Division, guest artists Mike Dawes and Antoine Dufour served as judges, along with guitarists Peter Finger, Kurt Plahna, Billy McLaughlin, John Stropes, Macyn Taylor and Candyrat Records … Read more…

2017 WCGF Classical Guitar Winner Interviews

This year’s Classical Guitar division judging panel included: Meng Su and Yameng Wang of the Beijing Guitar Duo; concert guitarists Rene Izquierdo and Elina Chekan, who both teach at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee’s … Read more…

Overview of the 2017 Wilson Center Guitar Festival

The Wilson Center Guitar Festival celebrated its 5th annual international guitar competition this past August 17-19 in Brookfield, Wisconsin, with a record number of 105 contestant applicants competing for $32,000 in cash prizes, an $10,000 … Read more…

Something About Nothing

Julia’s speaks with guitarist Kevin Eubanks about his new CD Release, Something About Nothing, at the Wilson Center Guitar Festival for DownBeat Magazine.

New Video

Julia has created a new video, an animation of Salvador Dalí’s painting, The Persistence of Memory. The original painting can be viewed at The Modern Museum of Art in New York.  

Luthier Ekrem Uğurlu of Istanbul’s Seren Violin

Turkish luthier Ekrem Uğurlu plies his busy instrument-making and instrument repair trade in his 9 year old instrument-making and repair shop studio, Seren Violin, in the neighborhood of Çengelköy, Istanbul, on the Uskudar (Asian) shore … Read more…

Book of the Month

A big thank you to Steve, who runs Steve O’Donnell’s Guitar School in Tauranga, New Zealand, for selecting My First Guitar:  Tales of True Love and Lost Chords as Book of the Month for May … Read more…

DROP CITY film – $3.99 online rental

Great news!  Drop City, the feature film documentary with Julia’s music in its soundtrack, is now viewable online as a $3.99 rental (72 hour viewing period) from Vimeo on-demand:  

Interview with The Guitar Channel

Julia was interviewed recently by Pierre Journel, the host of The Guitar Channel Passion Amplifier podcast on iTunes, about her book, My First Guitar:  Tales of True Love and Lost Chords.  Thank you again to … Read more…

DROP CITY in Deutschland, April 2017

DROP CITY, which features Julia’s music in its soundtrack, will be screening in Frankfurt, Germany on APRIL 18, 2017, 7:30 PM, at the Naxos Kino as a special program of the research group “International Dissidence … Read more…

A Resonant Portrait of Videoguitargrapher Eric Cecil

Eric Cecil is a classical guitarist who has been using his videography talents to develop “Resonant Portraits,” a video series on his Youtube channel, devoted to capturing performances of many New York-based classical guitarists, including … Read more…

Roland Dyens’ Interview from “My First Guitar”

The guitar community faces the loss of one of its originals, the Tunisian-French classical guitarist, arranger and composer Roland Dyens.  Dyens was known for his extraordinary improvisatory skills and his brilliantly colorful and evocative compositions that … Read more…