Julia Broxholm Assistant Professor of Voice
Soprano Julia Broxholm is a highly regarded recital soloist, chamber musician,
recording artist, and educator. She is a founding member of SATB, a vocal
quartet specializing in vocal chamber music of the 19th and 20th centuries. As
a recitalist she is known for her performances of vocal literature by American
composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her performances with SATB
have taken her from the Cayman Islands International Music Festival to Severance
Hall in Cleveland, and Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music. Recordings
include two releases with SATB; Magic, and It’s a Grand
Night….Four Singing. She also has recorded two CD’s
of soprano, clarinet repertoire with clarinetist Fred Ormand and pianist Martin
Katz. Of Shepherds, Romance and Love features music of the 19th
century, and a soon to be released recording will include the song cycles Ariel by
Ned Rorem, and To Be Sung Upon the Water by Dominick Argento. She
received her D.M.A from the University of Michigan School of Music, and has
been an active performer and teacher for over twenty-five years. Her
operatic roles include Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, the title
role in Floyd’s Susannah, Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze
di Figaro, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Musetta
in Puccini’s La Boheme. A recent project has been a series
of premier performances of Byna, Life Songs of a Southern Appalachian Woman
of Cherokee Indian Descent. Byna is the collaboration of a North Carolina
composer and playwright, and has been receiving performances throughout the
Appalachian mountain region. The Washington, D.C. premier of this major
chamber work for soprano, piano, oboe and cello is planned for the 2006/2007
concert season. Former students are leading players on stages on Broadway,
in Las Vegas, in national touring companies, and in Europe. Dr. Broxholm joined
the School of Music Department faculty at the University of Kansas in the fall
of 2005.
