Julia Bullock, who is commissioning, curating, staging, directing and performing a show in Davies Hall on May 17, is an explosive multitasking talent, roaming the world, fighting for vital causes and receiving plaudits.
Julia Bullock, who is commissioning, curating, staging, directing and performing a, is an explosive multitasking talent, roaming the world, fighting for vital causes and receiving plaudits.
Integrating her musical life with community activism, she has organized benefit concerts for war-affected children and adolescents in Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Uganda,and St. Louis. She serves on the advisory board of Turn the Spotlight, which works to promote equity in the arts., a group of “visionary artists, thinkers and doers joining the orchestra to embark on a future of experimentation by collaborating on new ideas, breaking conventional rules and creating unique and powerful experiences.
“I sought to find composers who could represent an incredible diversity of voices and of experience,” says Bullock, “a group of Black identifying women who are tremendous, thoughtful musicians. Bullock has degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Bard College and the Juilliard School. She lives in Germany, with her husband, Christian Reif, former resident conductor of the S.F. Symphony, who is conducting the orchestra at the May 17 concert.
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