DOUBLEDAY MUSIC

Biography of Mrs Julie Doubleday

Since gaining a BA (Hons) in 1996 from the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music, she has led a successful career as a professional musician and teacher. Her career started as Principal Viola with the Orquestra do Norte, Portugal. After two years, she returned to the UK to pursue a freelance career. The majority of her work was with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with whom she toured extensively around the world and recorded for television, radio and compact disc. Other work included with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, English String Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of The Swan, Bath Philharmonic, Viva and others.

Alongside her orchestral career, Julie worked as a chamber musician. With the Astaria String Quartet she attended the prestigious Prussia Cove International Music Seminar, where she was tutored by Gabor Takas Nagy. She was a regular performer in the CBSO Centre Stage chamber music series with other members of the CBSO and their guest soloists; notably performing quartets with violinist Sakari Orama, cellist Natalia Gutman and pianist Stephen Hough.

As a pianist, Julie worked as a lounge pianist at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and with the Berkley Salon Ensemble. She has worked as a repetiteur for amateur operatic societies and is a busy accompanist for instrumentalists and vocalists.

Throughout her career, Julie has worked with many internationally renowned and famous artists including Sir Simon Rattle, Nigel Kennedy, Sir Thomas Allen, Andrea Bocelli, Sir Bryn Terfel, Hilary Hann, Maxim Vengerov, Janine Jansen, Esa Pekka Salonen and more! She has performed to audiences across the world, including in front of members of the royal family, members of parliament and even to Yasir Arafat! She has toured with pop artists including Chris de Burgh and made numerous television appearances including as part of the surprise orchestra on ‘Billionaire Boy’. Music has led her to travel extensively and has provided such varied concerts from many concerts at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, to a live broadcast on Japanese television during a typhoon, to a string quartet concert in a carpet shop in Leeds!

​Julie now dedicates herself to arranging/composing, teaching and performing. Her arrangements are published at SMP Press. As a performer, she is a member of Woodfield Strings, regularly performs with The Amici Ensemble, The London Gala Orchestra and The Rep Orchestra, and is the founder and organiser for The Guild of Strings. Julie also works as the Sheffield Wedding Pianist.

Julie is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) and the National Education Union (NEU). She is fully DBS checked, has Public Liability Insurance and has undertaken Safeguarding Children training.

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