Julia Dollison earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in studio music and jazz performance from The University of Miami (FL), where she taught jazz voice and vocal jazz ensembles. She has also served as an adjunct member of the jazz studies faculty at the New School University in New York. Dollison's uniquely personal brand of jazz is delighting clubgoers and concert audiences throughout the U.S. and Canada. She's performed with the Maria Schneider Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, New York's premier jazz club, appeared by invitation at the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) in Toronto, and was a featured headliner at the Prince Edward Island Jazz Festival. Since being named Downbeat's Best Jazz Vocal Soloist in 2000, Dollison has been heard at such New York clubs as Tavern on the Green, Detour, Cleopatra's Needle, New Leaf Café, the Zinc Bar, S.O.B.'s, and the Bottom Line. She's shared the stage with Jamey Aebersold, Gene Bertoncini, Bob Dorough, Lewis Nash, Christian McBride, Mark Murphy, Dianne Reeves, Ira Sullivan, and Kenny Wheeler, as well as pop artist and fellow University of Miami alumnus Jon Secada, and sung with Erich Kunzel and the Naples Philharmonic. A classically trained soprano, Dollison sang the solos in Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms under Michael Tilson Thomas and played the title role in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. She's also appeared in the "Voices of Liberty" show at Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center, where she was featured as a main park attraction. An experienced studio singer, Dollison can be heard on the film score of "The Stepford Wives" (DreamWorks 2004), the film trailer for "Vera Drake" (Fine Line Cinema 2004), and commercials for Disney World, Florida Orange Bowl, Pier One Imports, Radio City Music Hall and Carnival Cruise Lines. To hear more samples of Julia's music and learn about her upcoming performances, please visit her website: www.juliadollison.com. |
