Julia Siciliano

About Julia

Award-winning concert pianist, Julia Siciliano has been heralded as a musician with “fabulous creative power” by the Bonn General-Anzeiger. Siciliano has become a well-respected artist on the world stage, being invited as soloist and chamber musician in many concert halls and festivals throughout the world. A winner of many piano competitions, Siciliano has won top prizes at the Sicily International Piano Competition, Heida Hermanns Competition, Iowa Piano Competition, and MTNA National Competition. A highly active chamber musician, Siciliano has been invited to perform repeatedly with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, the Euskadiko Orchestra (Basque National Orchestra)’s chamber music series “Miramon Matinees”, the MurciArt Festival in Murcia, Spain, and with the soloists of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano. She is a regular on highly regarded concert series such as the DonostiaMusika (San Sebastián, Spain) and PianoForte Chicago, and even has a series named after her at the Kerrytown Concert House (Ann Arbor, Michigan): The Siciliano Salon Series. She has given recitals with Metropolitan Opera stars Amanda Pabyan, Eric Owens, and Marina Domashenko, and internationally acclaimed string players Ray Chen, Simone Lamsma, Kyril Zlotnikov, and Hayoung Choi. Most notably, Siciliano performed the complete “accompanied sonatas” of Beethoven in the year 2020 at the Teatro Victoria Eugenia in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, and in various venues throughout the United States, France, and Sweden.

Her debut solo album Dream Catchers, a two disc album featuring small scale works by Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Ravel and Debussy, released in 2016 to great acclaim. Fanfare Magazine declared “this release has merit as a career milestone” and leaves “no doubt about the devotion and seriousness of Siciliano’s approach to music.” Gramophone Magazine praised her "fine technique and natural musicality” pinpointing her "masterful delicacy, harmonic motion, and timing" in Debussy’s Images II.

My philosophy as a teacher and concert pianist is that every note is sacred. Each phrase should be treated with thoughtfulness and intention, and we should always strive to make a beautiful sound.