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Thank you for visiting juliegroves.com!
Julie has recently completed her Masters in Sound Art with Salomé Voegelin at LCC, University of the Arts, London. A partner site will soon be created so that you can visit juliegroves.com as a professional musician or juliegroves.com as a sound artist. In the meantime you can view her final installation PROXIMITY documentary film here (please deselect HD at the bottom right hand corner if your internet connection is slow).
You can hear Julie's piccolo playing in the Green Flag TV advert - also featuring the voice of Harry Hill - on Television and radio at the moment.
Julie's CD 'PARZIVAL' is now available to buy, please contact her via the contact page in order to purchase a copy. This is the brand new three-fold collaborative recording between Julie, composer Gregers Brinch and Whitbread Prize author Lindsay Clarke. The recording incorporates a beautiful song cycle for baritone and flute and also a five-flute-solo suite dedicated to Julie. A fantastic buy.
Reduced Biography
Julie Groves performs as a soloist, orchestral musician and as part of the accomplished London Myriad Ensemble who are international competition first prize winners. Her passion for chamber music manifests itself in duos with pianist Yuki Negishi, guitarist Ahmed Dickinson and her flute and guitar duos, the Ashgrove Duo (with Ashley Hards) and Woodlark (with Laura Snowden). Julie Groves and Aisling Ennis formed a flute and harp duo Eolande Duo and also as FLARP! Venues such as the Purcell Room Southbank Centre; National Gallery; St Martin’s in the Fields; Blackheath Halls; the Barbican; St James’s, Piccadilly; Wiltons Theatre and Cromer Pier have been hosts to Julie’s performances. She was notably the Great Britain and Ireland Winner of the LIONS International Music Competition, representing the UK in the Europe Finals.
Julie has ongoing creative projects with Between Soundings (flute/poet), composers, actors and dancers in creating new works and experimenting with improvisational material. As both a performer and composer, Julie is developing an array of different ventures that include both her own work her collaboration with other artists.
Julie is Composers Editor for the British Flute Society online and also occasionally writes reviews for Flute - the Journal of the BFS.
She also coaches chamber music and advanced woodwind across the country and at Benslow Music.
If you have an enquiry or any questions then please use the contact page.
Audio Links are on their way.
Thanks for visiting!
Events diary
- Rodney Clarke in PROXIMITY @ "...on the boundary of sound..."
19 November 2012 - London Myriad @ Benslow Music
08 February 2013 - Woodlark Duo @ The National Gallery
22 February 2013 - MFMO @ The Union Chapel
02 March 2013 - Master Flea @ Hoxton Hall
17 March 2013 - London Myriad in Cuckfield
22 March 2013 - Soloist in 'Les Six Plus Sieben' with Southgate Symphony Orchestra
20 April 2013 - London Myriad @ Benslow Music
07 May 2013 - Dream of Gerontius massed choirs @ St John's Waterloo
06 July 2013 - Woodlark Duo @ St Luke's Music and Wine
02 August 2013
Events archived
- Woodlark Duo @ The National Gallery artists' series
23 November 2012 - Ward & White's Karaoke Circus @ The 100 Club
29 October 2012 - Rose Theatre, Ascot
27 October 2012 - Kidbrooke Concert
23 September 2012 - Concert for St Catherine's Hospice
14 September 2012 - The Sound of a Voice - UK premiere
19 August 2012 - Dartington Festival Orchestra
17 August 2012 - Dartington Festival Orchestra
15 August 2012 - The Sound of a Voice
09 August 2012 - HarpFest
28 July 2012