Violinist and fiddler Julia Connor has a wide-ranging musical voice, performing everything from baroque music on period instruments to fiddle music from Ireland to new works by living composers. Julia is a founding member of both the Berwick Fiddle Consort and the violin and piano duo Room to Spare, which composes and performs original groove based new music. Recent highlights include a performance with La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco at the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, a recording of music for Lady M., a new ballet presented by the Louisville Ballet at the 2023 Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, and appearances with the Berwick Fiddle Consort at both the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe and the Off the Dock Chamber Music Festival in Skaneateles, NY.

Julia’s solo playing has been featured in the Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP) summer concert series (Boston), Kings Chapel Concert series (Boston), the Music by Women Festival (MS), and ClareFM radio (Ireland).  She has been an artist-in-residence at Avaloch Farm (Boscawen, NH) and PLAYA (Summer Lake, OR).

Julia holds a Master’s degree with honors from the New England Conservatory and is a graduate of the Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she earned degrees with high honors in violin performance and Hispanic studies.