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Julia Crowe is a New York-based guitarist whose music, like her writing, conveys an inventive, dextrous and slyly humorous style delivered with skillful mastery. With her foundation as a classical guitarist, Julia performs original fingerstyle pieces on both electric and classical nylon string guitar. Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine writes, “A musical chameleon with an ethereal sound and a uniquely nightshade hue of the blues, each one of Julia's pieces tells its own story in varied landscapes of mood, texture and dimension brought together by incandescent guitar playing.” She has recently recorded music for Evanstonian, a film documentary retrospective on the works of artist Ron Crawford. Her debut CD of original solo instrumental works will be released in 2008. Ms. Crowe has authored over a dozen magazine cover stories and features for Classical Guitar Magazine (U.K.), Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Guitar Player, FRETS, Mel Bay's Guitarsessions, Down Beat and Soundboard. A graduate of the University of Chicago with a degree in English Literature, she has lived and performed in New York, London, Los Angeles, Wexford, Ireland and in Paris, where she performed at Notre Dame Cathedral. She has also performed solo in Chicago’s Grant Park, the Daley Center Plaza and at DePaul University. Her solo instrumental, Sid’s Swagger, received an American Composer's Forum Encore Grant. Her work was also featured among the works of twelve other composers from around the world in SONIC Channels: Emerging Media Publics, an audio concert held in conjunction with the Project Media Space | Public Space exhibition hosted by The New School University Media Studies Department and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She was asked to perform an arrangement of John Lennon’s “Imagine” at a 9/11 memorial concert in Manhattan, where she resides. Julia plays a cedar-topped Bérnabe
made by luthier Darren Hippner and fingerstyle on a Les Paul Standard. |