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Julia Grenfell
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Flute
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Piccolo flute
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Australia
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English
Julia Grenfell
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Flute
&
Piccolo flute
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Australia
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English
Principal Piccolo of the Adelaide Symphony, I studied with Leone Buyse & Walfrid Kujala. Teaching excerpts and audition taking is my speciality!
Originally from New Zealand, Julia Grenfell has been Principal Piccolo of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra since 2001. Previous to that, Julia spent five years studying and working in the United States. She gained a Master of Music at Northwestern University in Chicago, studying with Walfrid Kujala, longtime Piccoloist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Julia then began a Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance at Rice University in Houston, studying with Leone Buyse, which she completed in 2003. Show Full Profile
In between her studies, Julia has held one-year positions with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington, and the San Antonio Symphony in San Antonio, Texas. Summer music festival participation includes the UBS Verbier Festival International Youth Orchestra in Verbier, Switzerland; Tanglewood festival in Massachusetts; National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado; and Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.
In her travels Julia has had the opportunity to work with some great conductors including James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Claudio Abbado, and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Experience & Education
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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra 2001 – Present
Principal PiccoloMy official job is Principal Piccolo but over the past fifteen years I have regularly played Principal Flute and Second Flute as we have a travelling Principal Flutist and a very versatile section! -
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA 1997 – 2003
Doctor of Musical ArtsMy DMA was in Flute Performance, studying with Leone Buyse. -
Northwestern University 1995 – 1997
Master of Music; Graduate Performance CertificateStudied with Walfrid Kujala
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