Ms. Crowe has authored over a dozen magazine cover stories and features for Classical Guitar Magazine (U.K.), Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Guitar Player, FRETS, Mel Bay's Guitarsessions, Down Beat and Soundboard. A graduate of the University of Chicago with a degree in English Literature, she has lived and performed in New York, London, Los Angeles, Wexford, Ireland and in Paris, where she performed at Notre Dame Cathedral. She has also performed solo in Chicago’s Grant Park, the Daley Center Plaza and at DePaul University.
She is the recipient of an American Composer's Forum Encore Grant and her work was recently featured among the works of twelve other composers from around the world in SONIC Channels: Emerging Media Publics, an audio concert hosted by The New School University Media Studies Department and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Also, in 2004, she was asked to perform an arrangement of John Lennon’s “Imagine” at a 9/11 memorial concert in Manhattan, where she resides.
News on the release of her debut instrumental CD will be forthcoming toward autumn, 2008.Julia plays a cedar-topped Bérnabe made by luthier Darren Hippner and fingerstyle on a Les Paul Standard.
For more details & updates, please visit her website at: www.juliacrowe.com