About Julia Siciliano
Award-winning concert pianist, Julia Siciliano has been heralded as a musician with “fabulous creative power” by the Bonn General-Anzeiger. Ms. Siciliano has become a well- respected talent on the world stage, being invited as a solo artist by many prestigious orchestras, and festivals, most recently with the Orquestra Sinfónica de la Region de Murcia for the MurciArt Music Festival. A winner of many local and international piano competitions, Julia has won top prizes at the Sicily International Piano Competition, Heida Hermanns International Competition, Iowa Piano Competition, and MTNA National Competition. A highly active chamber musician, Julia has been invited to perform on concert series and festivals with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, the Euskadiko Orchestra’s “Miramon Matinees”, Donostia Musika series at Teatro Victoria Eugenia in San Sebastián, Spain, and the La Verdi chamber music series in Teatro Gerolamo di Milano. She has given recitals with Metropolitan Opera stars Amanda Pabyan, Eric Owens, and Marina Domashenko, and internationally acclaimed instrumentalists Hayoung Choi, Ray Chen, and Alexei Ogrintchouk. Most notably, Julia performed the complete “accompanied sonatas” of Beethoven in the year 2020 at the Teatro Victoria Eugenia in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, and in various venues throughout the United States, France, and Sweden.
Julia’s artistic presence and engaging programming have made her highly sought after in stages across North America, Central America, Europe and Asia. She has performed live on classical radio stations in Chicago (WFMT), and New York City (WQXR), Detroit’s historic Scarab Club, Cincinnati Music Hall, and the Bulgarian Consulate, National Arts Club, and Symphony Space in New York City. Internationally, she has performed at the Teatro Nacional of Gautemala, MalmöLive in Malmö, Sweden, Teatro Victoria Eugenia in San Sebastián, Spain, Palazzo Biscari in Catania, Italy, Teatro Gerolamo in Milan, Italy, Parvis de l’église Notre-Dame d’Espérance in Cannes, Deutsche Telekom Headquarters in Bonn, Clairmont Hall in Tel Aviv, Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow, and Kioi Hall in Tokyo. Audiences enjoy her performances so much that she is frequently invited to return for multi-concert series, like her Beethoven Cycle (9 concerts) in 2020 and Brahms/Mozart cycle (7 concerts) in Donostia Musika (San Sebastián, Spain). The Kerrytown Concert House (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) has even devoted a recital series to her titled the “Siciliano Salon Series”.
Her debut solo album "Dream Catchers”, a two disc album featuring small scale works by Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Ravel and Debussy, released in 2016 to great acclaim. Fanfare Magazine declared “this release has merit as a career milestone” and leaves “no doubt about the devotion and seriousness of Siciliano’s approach to music.” Gramophone Magazine praised her "fine technique and natural musicality” pinpointing her "masterful delicacy, harmonic motion, and timing" in Debussy’s Images II.
Since opening a private teaching studio in Chicago in 2023, Siciliano has established herself as a respected educator, already earning the Steinway Top Teacher Award in 2024. She has been invited to give masterclasses at the University of Chicago, Eastern Michigan University, and Oakland University, and is on the faculty of prestigious institutions such as the Interlochen Arts Camp, Reinhardt Piano Festival and Academy, and the Schoolcraft College Summer Piano Camp. Siciliano holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with legendary pedagogue Nelita True, and the University of Michigan with famed pianist, teacher, and composer Logan Skelton.