Biography

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Juliana is a recorder player, whistle player, and vocalist based in Sheffield, UK, whose work spans performance, composition, and creative collaboration. She leads several projects and has received composition and recording commissions from Making Tracks, the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, and the University of Sheffield. A graduate of Birmingham Conservatoire, where she studied recorder with Annabel Knight and Chris Orton, Juliana has performed for TV, theatre, opera, and radio, with credits including the BBC, Disney+, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Manchester Collective.

She co-directs Emergence Collective, an improvised minimalist ensemble featuring a revolving line-up of around 40 musicians. The group performs regularly and has sold out venues around the UK, releasing several albums to critical acclaim - "a beautifully subtle yet hypnotic performance of stripped-back improvised minimalism" - The Guardian.

Her solo project explores a haunting blend of low recorders, whistles, vocalisations, found sounds, and field recordings, creating looped layers and ambient, improvised textures. She was commissioned by the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music to write and record her debut solo album, released on the Northern label New Jazz and Improvised Recordings, and by Making Tracks to transcribe and record humpback whale song - a work later adapted and performed on their UK tour. "That was a real journey, wasn’t it? The deft use of echo there to create this sinuous texture of sound - that was absolutely beautiful." - Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3.

Juliana also performs as a duo with Tom Harris, using reclaimed steel plates, springs, and water vessels as resonators for low recorders, whistles, voice, tapes, and synths, and collaborates with experimental harpist Manon McCoy, who also features on her album.

Alongside performing, Juliana is an experienced teacher and workshop leader. She teaches recorder at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Music Academy and leads workshops exploring improvisation, composition, and electronic music.