Julia Hwang

Julia gave her professional solo debut with the English National Baroque Chamber Orchestra at the age of nine, performing Bach's Concerto in A minor, and in the same year performed for legendary violinist Ivry Gitlis in London. She recorded two CDs at the ages of eleven and twelve, and, also at the age of twelve, performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Julia has been a veteran of the concert stage for many years and her numerous solo appearances with orchestras internationally have led to an ever-increasing schedule of concerts both in the UK and abroad. 

Julia has appeared many times on live television and radio through the BBC and ITV and, in 2012, she was featured in a BBC4 documentary about the nation’s favourite composition ‘The Lark Ascending’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Her performance of this work was specifically chosen by the BBC to represent this timeless classic of the great British composer, and the documentary has been re-broadcast on many occasions due to popular demand. In 2015, she was appointed to be a cultural ambassador for the BRACE Alzheimer’s Society, alongside broadcasters Jonathan Dimbleby and Martyn Lewis. She has recently collaborated with Vadim Gluzman in Israel. Her latest CD, recorded in collaboration with Signum Classics, will be released in June 2017.

Other public and charity performances have included performing at the 2012 Violins of Hope music festival in North Carolina, USA, with world famous violinist Shlomo Mintz; a charity concert at Highgrove to raise funds for The Prince's Trust alongside cellist Julian Lloyd-Webber; and innumerable further concerts to raise money for, among others, The Alzheimer's Society, the NSPCC and MacMillan Cancer Relief.

Julia is an undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge. She began her violin studies with Richard Crabtree, and currently studies with Itzhak Rashkovsky in London. 

She plays on a Peter Guarnerius of Mantua violin c.1698, on generous loan from the Alderson Trust.