About

Canadian soprano Julia Dawson is a winner of the George London Award and the Anny-Schlemm-Preis. Her recent roles include La Licenza in Mozart's Il sogno di Scipione with Palermo Classica, Servilia with Pacific Opera Victoria, and Donna Anna with the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, after ensemble seasons at Oper Frankfurt.

In concert she has sung Stravinsky's Pulcinella with the Munich Philharmonic and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Barbara Hannigan, and Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester.

A committed recitalist and interpreter of new music, she has been presented by the BERLied Festival, Palermo Classica, on tour throughout China, Vocal Arts DC, the New York Festival of Song at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Musica Plus, and Hessischer Rundfunk. For her recording of Scott Ordway's Girl in the Snow, she earned an Opus Klassik nomination.