Hailed for the “arresting color” (Cincinnati Enquirer) of her voice, Julie Miller has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras and opera companies. Notable performances include Emilia (Otello), Annina (La traviata), Ida (Die Fledermaus), Krystina (The Passenger), Baroness Nica in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird plus understudies of Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) and Waltraute (Die Walküre) with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hackney Empire and Madison Opera. Her performance of the title role in Handel’s Ariodante was described as “deeply musical” by the Chicago Tribune and an “admirable and professional performance.” Elsewhere, she has appeared with Vero Beach Opera as Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Sugar Creek Opera as Ma Joad (The Grapes of Wrath), Opera Idaho as Charlotte (Werther) and Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera as Maddalena (Rigoletto). Additional roles she has performed include Jo (Little Women), Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Stephano (Roméo et Juliette), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea), and the Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors).

She has appeared on the concert stage as the mezzo-soprano soloist in Bach’s Magnificat and Cantata No. 6, Handel’s Messiah, Durufle’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Requiem. Orchestras with whom she has appeared include the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Music Festival, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and Oregon Mozart Players. She was a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall in the world premiere of Ryan Carter’s Doot, the Ravinia Festival in Bernstein’s Songfest, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Apollo Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, and with the Madison Symphony Orchestra for Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.

Ms. Miller is the recipient of the Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Scholarship and the Rose McGilvray Grundman Award (American Opera Society of Chicago), the Richard F. Gold Career Grant (Shoshana Foundation), the Edith Newfield Scholarship Award (Musicians Club of Women). She earned a bachelor’s degree from CSU Sacramento and her master’s degree in Vocal Arts at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. She also participated in the Georg Solti Accademia Bel Canto in Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany.