Julie Coleman is a member of the Oregon Symphony and is Adjunct Professor of Violin at Portland State University. She attended The Juilliard School studying with Sally Thomas and was awarded the Gluck Fellowship. Her teachers at summer festivals have included Charles Castleman, Paul Kantor, Sylvia Rosenberg, Donald Weilerstein, Philip Setzer, and Stephen Clapp.

As a member of contemporary music group Fear No Music in Portland, Julie has the opportunity to perform and occasionally record the works of new, up-coming and more established modern composers. Her performance with colleagues Phil Hansen, Joel Belgique and Andrew Erlich of Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 2 was hailed by the Oregonian as “...beautifully and hauntingly played.” As a soloist Ms. Coleman has been featured most recently with the Oregon Symphony, Aspen Young Artist Concert Orchestra, Portland Youth Philharmonic and Chico Symphony in California. The American Sinfonietta’s tour of Germany in the fall of 2001 with Music Director, Michael Palmer, was Ms Coleman’s first affiliation with the group.

This summer she will join them at Bellingham for the summer festival, 2002. Earlier this summer Julie was invited to play at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming under Music Director Eiji Oue. In February, 2002 she had the honor of touring Mexico and Southern California with David Atherton and the ‘Orchestra of the Californias’, a production of Mainly Mozart.

Ms. Coleman returns to the Oregon Symphony after a year long sabbatical in the fall of 2002.