Julia Noone

Violinist Julia Noone is the Associate Concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with the LO on multiple occasions, including a performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante during her first full season with the orchestra, and will perform the Korngold Violin Concerto during the 2021-2022 season. In 2019, Julia performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon with LO music director Teddy Abrams, Jim James, and several LO colleagues to promote the orchestra’s new album The Order of Nature.
 

Julia has performed as a guest Concertmaster of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, and Orchestra Kentucky, and as a guest Principal Second of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She has additionally performed with the Boston, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras as an auxiliary musician. During the summer, Julia is a member of the Sun Valley Music Festival in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Prior to Louisville, Julia was a Fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami, where she regularly performed as Concertmaster and was the featured soloist in Szymanowski’s Second Violin Concerto after winning the NWS Concerto Competition. Also while at New World, Julia traveled to Medellín, Colombia to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as part of the NWS’s exchange with Iberacademy.

Julia spent multiple summers performing with the Moritzburg Academy, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize and served as Concertmaster regularly. Other summer festival engagements include a performance as Concertmaster for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Spoleto Festival USA and two seasons as Assistant Concertmaster of Charlottesville Opera.

Julia received her bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory, where she was a student of Masuko Ushioda.