Julie Johnson, Flute

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Flutist Julie Johnson has performed classical, jazz, blues, and world music in concert halls, Italian cathedrals, Texas juke joints, horse barns, and jazz clubs. Raised in a small Minnesota town on the Canadian border, she has studied music at Augsburg College in Minneapolis; in Antibes, France, with French flutists Sibel Kumru-Pensel and Aurel Nicolet; and in Austin, Texas, with blues bands such as Dede Priest and Trent Turner and the Moontowers. A winner of a 1999 Career Opportunity Grant and a 2008 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Julie has played with orchestras such as the Rome Festival Orchestra and the Duluth/Superior Orchestra, and at the 2005 Fête de la Flute in Menton. She has also performed with the American Composers Forum, on the Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series, and as a featured performer with the Minnesota Chorale.  Julie won a fall 2008 Music Creative Residency, with a full-tuition scholarship, at the Banff Centre in Alberta and is a recipient of a 2009 Subito Grant from the American Composers Forum.   She is passionate about the idea of breaking down walls of genre between performers and audiences by uncovering thematic, melodic, and other relations between pieces from disparate genres, then bringing them together with her own distinct sound and approach.   She recently finished Arrest, an album of art music based on folk and street music.  Samples of her work can be found at her website: www.julieflute.com