BIO

Julia Atwood is the Director of Music at Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut. Previously, she was the Director of Music at Saint Bridget of Sweden Parish in Cheshire, Connecticut. Mrs. Atwood has more than twenty years of experience as a professional musician serving as choral director, parish music director, organist, and cantor.

Mrs. Atwood received the Master of Music in Sacred Music degree in choral music from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. While in residence there, she performed with the elite Choir of Seventeen that welcomed Pope Benedict XVI to Catholic University; was both a Dom Mocquereau and Centennial scholar; and studied choral conducting, chant, voice, and organ. She also pursued additional studies in vocal pedagogy through George Mason University. Mrs. Atwood also performed with the Catholic University Chorus in the 2006 Prague Spring music festival for the first performance of the Defiant Requiem held on the site of the Terezín concentration camp. This moving multi-media concert drama weaves Verdi’s Requiem together with the true story of Jewish prisoners who sang the complete work to their Nazi guards as an act of defiance.

For the last twenty years, Mrs. Atwood has utilized her vocal and choral training by empowering choirs and soloists to beautifully render inspiring music.

For a complete work and education history, please click here to view résumé.

Please see audio portfolio below.

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CONTACT

• Mobile: 703-659-5816
• Email: j.e.atwood@gmail.com

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AUDIO PORTFOLIO – Live recordings

Parish Choir Director

• O lux beatissima – Howard Helvey (United States: b. 1968)
• Comfort, Comfort Ye My People – Claude Goudimel (France: 1510-1572)
• Ave verum corpus – William Byrd (England: 1540-1623)
• Oculi omnium – Charles Wood (England: 1866-1926)
• Sicut cervus – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Italy: 1525-1594)

Pandemic Virtual Choir Videos for Parish and School

• Christ Our Light Has Come
• Silent Night
• Adoramus Te
• Alleluia
• Go Make a Difference
• Transfigure Us, O Lord

High School Choir Director

Youth Choir Director

• Ave Maria – Lorenzo Perosi (Italy: 1872-1956)

Children’s Choir Director

• Panis Angelicus– César Franck (France: 1822-1890)

Soprano Soloist

• Ave Maria – Franz Biebl (Germany: 1906-2001)
• Ave Maria – Franz Schubert (Austria: 1797-1828)
• Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation – Responsorial Psalm for the Second Sunday in Advent, Year B

Organist

• Prelude in F from Eight Little Preludes and Fugues – formerly attributed to J. S. Bach (Germany: 1685-1750)
• ODE TO JOY – Ludwig van Beethoven (Germany: 1770-1827)