Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Saxophone Lessons

Julie began her musical journey in her home town of Strathaven, Scotland. In high school she played in the school band in addition to the Lanarkshire Youth Concert Band and Lanarkshire Youth Orchestra.

She attended Napier College in Edinburgh for 2 years studying music and trained with clarinetist Alison Waller. Julie continued her studies at Trinity College of Music in London, England. There she trained with clarinetist John Stenhouse (London Symphony Orchestra) and Chris Gradwell (London Saxophone Quartet). She attained both a Licentiateship and Fellowship from Trinity.

​After graduating, Julie free-lanced in and around London as an orchestral clarinetist. She performed regularly with the Forest Philharmonic Orchestra (as bass clarinetist), and as a chamber musician with the Amabile Wind Quintet, Thayer Octet and, as the soprano saxophonist with, the Jazz-A-Belles saxophone quartet.
Julie taught in various schools in the Greater London area maintaining a very busy studio.

​She emigrated to Canada 1993 and continued to work as a professional freelancer and established a large teaching studio.

As a teacher, Julie has a robust studio of private students from all over the lower mainland including elementary and high school students plus adult learners. She is an active clinician working both privately and for the Long and McQuade, Tapestry Music and Tom Lee education departments directing workshops and taking sectionals for numerous schools and band retreats. She is part of the woodwind faculty at Vancouver Academy of Music (VAM) and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) School of Music. She can prepare students for RCM (Royal Conservatory of Music), ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music ) and Trinity College exams in both clarinet and saxophone. Many of her students have auditioned and been accepted into the jazz degree course at Capilano University as well as UBC, UVic and other university schools of music.

Julie is the music director for both the Rising Tide Community Band and Accidental Jazz Band based on the north shore.

As a professional performer, she works as a soloist, in stage productions, chamber music ensembles and orchestras. As an orchestral freelancer, she performs with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Lions Gate Sinfonia, Allegra Chamber Orchestra, Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra and Plastic Acid Orchestra. Julie is a member of the Erato Ensemble, Wind Song Trio and Trio Primario. She also works for the Health Arts Society performing Concerts in Care with collaborative pianist Karen Lee Morlang.