Biography

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Juliana is a recorder player, whistle player and vocalist based in Sheffield, UK. She has performed for TV, theatre, opera and radio including for the BBC, Disney+, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Collective and Northern Silents. She has also recieved composition/recording commisions from Making Tracks, the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, and the University of Sheffield.

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She co-directs Emergence Collective, an improvised minimalist ensemble, featuring a revolving line-up of around 30 musicians.  They regularly perform and have sold out venues around the UK. They have just released their second album which was featured in Loud & Quiet magazine and Quietus' Music of the Month among other publications.

 "enthralling gorgeous, mysterious and mesemerising" Cast The Dice

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She also performs improvised film scores around the North of England, and has provided instrumental and backing vocals for numerous session recordings. 

Her solo project uses a haunting combination of the lower family of recorders, whistles, vocalisations, found sounds and field recordings, building up looped layers and ambient, improvised textures. She was recently commisioned by the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music to write and record her debut solo album, which has been released on the Northern label New Jazz and Improvised Recordings. She was also commisioned by Making Tracks to write and record a piece transcribing humpback whale song, the recording of which was adapted and played on their UK tour.

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"utterly, soul-wrenchingly beautiful" - Aitch Nicol, Joyzine

"haunting and comforting at the same time" - CAMP radio,  Panurus Presents

"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

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Juliana completed her undergraduate degree in Music Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and studied recorders with teachers Annabel Knight and Chris Orton. It was there that she developed her love of using the recorder as a contemporary instrument, and has performed numerous brand new works for live performances and short films which use extended recorder and whistle techniques such as circular breathing, singing and playing at the same time and multiphonics. 

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As well as performing, Juliana is also an experienced teacher and workshop leader, and achieved Distinction in her master's degree in Music Psychology from the University of Sheffield.