Julia Noone

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 new album The Order of Nature.

Julia has performed as guest Concertmaster with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Lakes Area Music Festival, and Orchestra Kentucky, and as 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 has been a member of the Sun Valley Music Festival since 2016.

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.