Julia Nolan

Julia Nolan is a busy saxophone soloist and chamber musician in a wide variety of genres. She is featured as soloist on the CBC Vancouver Orchestra CD "Globetrotting" and has recorded Concerto by Fred Stride commissioned for her by the CBC. She has been featured with the CBC Jazz Orchestra playing Jimmy Dorsey's Oodles of Noodles.

She has also performed and recorded with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver New Music Society, Vancouver Opera Orchestra and with the "Showboat Orchestra" as well as with the Alan Matheson Septet and Saxoduo with her husband David Branter.

Julia Nolan gave a lecture, recital and masterclass at the University of Saskatchewan in September 2000. As well, she performed with Alan Matheson's Nonet and Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet at UBC in October 2000 as well as recording with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In July 2000, she performed at the XII World Saxophone Conference in Montreal, Quebec with Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet and also premiered a new work for baritone saxophones by Fred Stride, called Two Brothers, written for Julia Nolan and Nancy Newman.

In January and April 1999 she was on tour with Saxology Canada in British Columbia as well as being active in the Vancouver based Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet. On November 4, 1999 Julia Nolan was the featured soloist with the Prince George Symphony Orchestra performing the Concertino da Camera by Jacques Ibert. She has also recently performed with the CBC Jazz Orchestra presenting the music of Duke Ellington and in a recreation of the Miles Davis Nonet sessions with Alan Matheson (Sept. 99) as well as having just completed a tour of Washington and Oregon with Saxology Canada. (Oct. 99)

Yamaha Canada sponsored Julia Nolan as the featured guest artist for the 1999 National Youth Band of Canada at Musicfest in Toronto. Julia Nolan teaches saxophone at the University of British Columbia and at Western Washington University, and has written reviews for the journal The Saxophone Symposium and The Saxophone Journal.

Julia Nolan is an artist-clinician for Yamaha Canada Ltd.