Julia
Nolan
Julia Nolan is a busy saxophone soloist and chamber musician in a wide variety
of genres. She is featured as soloist on the CBC Vancouver Orchestra CD "Globetrotting"
and has recorded Concerto by Fred Stride commissioned for her by the
CBC. She has been featured with the CBC Jazz Orchestra playing Jimmy Dorsey's
Oodles of Noodles.
She has
also performed and recorded with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver
New Music Society, Vancouver Opera Orchestra and with the "Showboat
Orchestra" as well as with the Alan Matheson Septet and Saxoduo with her
husband David Branter.
Julia
Nolan gave a lecture, recital and masterclass at the University of Saskatchewan
in September 2000. As well, she performed with Alan Matheson's Nonet and
Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet at UBC in October 2000 as well as recording with
the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In July 2000, she performed at the XII World
Saxophone Conference in Montreal, Quebec with Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet and
also premiered a new work for baritone saxophones by Fred Stride, called Two
Brothers, written for Julia Nolan and Nancy Newman.
In
January and April 1999 she was on tour with Saxology Canada in British Columbia
as well as being active in the Vancouver based Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet. On
November 4, 1999 Julia Nolan was the featured soloist with the Prince George
Symphony Orchestra performing the Concertino da Camera by Jacques Ibert. She
has also recently performed with the CBC Jazz Orchestra presenting the music of
Duke Ellington and in a recreation of the Miles Davis Nonet sessions with Alan
Matheson (Sept. 99) as well as having just completed a tour of Washington and
Oregon with Saxology Canada. (Oct. 99)
Yamaha
Canada sponsored Julia Nolan as the featured guest artist for the 1999 National
Youth Band of Canada at Musicfest in Toronto. Julia Nolan teaches saxophone at
the University of British Columbia and at Western Washington University, and has
written reviews for the journal The Saxophone Symposium and The Saxophone
Journal.
Julia
Nolan is an artist-clinician for Yamaha Canada Ltd.
