Julia Bullard

Professor and Assistant Director, Bailey School of Music
(she/her/hers)

 

Violist Julia Bullard enjoys a diverse career as a performer, pedagogue, and Alexander Technique teacher. She is the violist of Trio 826, whose first album, Mosaic, was released on the Blue Griffin label in 2016. She has performed as a guest with ensembles including the Bogotá Chamber Orchestra, the Arianna String Quartet, and the Maia Quartet. A dedicated pedagogue, Dr. Bullard received the Iowa String Teachers Association’s Leopold LaFosse Studio Teacher of the Year award in 2011. She has presented master classes across the US and abroad at institutions including University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lawrence University, State University of New York at Fredonia, and Universidad Federal Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil; and has been artist-faculty at several summer music festivals including Cedar Valley Chamber Music, Wintergreen Music Festival and Academy, and Madeline Island Music Festival.  

Dr. Bullard received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Temple University in Philadelphia, and the DMA degree from the University of Georgia. Her principal teachers included violists Joseph dePasquale, Emanuel Vardi, Sidney Curtiss, and Mark Cedel, and violinist Levon Ambartsumian. She completed her Alexander Technique teacher training at the Minnesota Center for the Alexander Technique and is a full member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique. 

From 2000-2022, Dr. Bullard served as viola professor at the University of Northern Iowa, and for 10 years was the Associate Director for Graduate Studies in the UNI School of Music. In August 2022, Dr. Bullard joined the faculty of Kennesaw State University, where she currently serves as Assistant Director of the Bailey School of Music and Professor of Music, teaching viola and Alexander Technique.