With a deep love for music new and old, Chinese culture and music, and exploring crossroads between music and language, Boston native Julia Glenn savors finding and contributing to unique artistic voices as an international performer of modern and baroque violins. Called “remarkable,” “gripping,” and “a brilliant soloist” by the New York Times, she recently joined the Naumburg-winning Lydian String Quartet and the faculty of Brandeis University after teaching for three years at the Tianjin Juilliard School. She has appeared on stages including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Sanders Theatre, Jordan Hall, the Beijing Recital Hall, Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, and Shanghai Concert Hall. 
     In January of 2016 she gave the world premiere of Milton Babbitt’s violin concerto to critical acclaim; her article on the work was published in 2022 in Contemporary Music Review. Glenn is a 2018 graduate of Juilliard’s C.V. Starr doctoral program, where she worked with Joseph Lin and Cynthia Roberts. She obtained her master’s from New England Conservatory in 2013 with James Buswell and her bachelor’s in linguistics magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2012. Her solo album “The Road” featuring new and recent works by Chinese-speaking composers was released on Navona Records in October 2024.