Originally from Worcester, MA, violinist Julia Noone is the Associate Concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with the LO on multiple occasions, including performances of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, Korngold’s Violin Concerto, various Baroque concerti, and more. In 2019, Julia performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon with LO music director Teddy Abrams, Jim James, and several LO colleagues to promote the orchestra’s album The Order of Nature.

Julia has performed as a guest Concertmaster with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Lakes Area Music Festival, and Orchestra Kentucky, and as a guest Principal Second with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She has additionally performed with the Boston, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras as an auxiliary musician. Julia spends her summers performing with the Sun Valley Music Festival in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Prior to Louisville, Julia was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami, where she regularly performed as Concertmaster and was the featured soloist in Szymanowski’s Second Violin Concerto after winning the NWS Concerto Competition. Also while at New World, Julia traveled to Medellín, Colombia to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as part of the NWS’s exchange with Iberacademy.

Julia spent multiple summers performing with the Moritzburg Academy, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize and served as Concertmaster regularly, including a performance of Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra. Other summer festival engagements include a performance as Concertmaster for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Spoleto Festival USA and two seasons as Assistant Concertmaster of Charlottesville Opera.

Julia received her bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory, where she was a student of Masuko Ushioda.

What do you enjoy most about performing with the Louisville Orchestra?

I love performing with my incredible colleagues!

In what ways do you think the Louisville Orchestra can make the greatest impact on our community?

I think it’s amazing how many students we reach every year with our annual Making Music concerts!