BIOGRAPHY

Julia Jaffe, mezzo-soprano, was born in Minsk, Belarus where she attended a specialized music school.  She immigrated to the USA as a teenager and studied voice and literature at the University of Utah. In Boston Julia had a career as a linguist  and pursued post graduate studies in voice at the New England Conservatory of Music.  She had performed as a soloist with the Lowell House Opera and Commonwealth Lyric Theatre as well as an ensemble member of Utah Opera, Opera Tampa and the Odyssey Opera. Julia experiences singing as direct conduit between the spiritual and corporeal realms. She feels blessed to be the soloist/section leader at the First Church UU in Lexington where she has had opportunities to sing music of dizzying variety under the leadership of Rip Jackson. Julia has found her niche in creating the original thematically organized programs.  She performs  as a guest soloist at music festivals in USA and Europe.  Julia became a featured artist at the yearly  Assisi Music Festival in Italy. Julia -- with Olga Harris and Julia Mortyakova -- opened the  2019 “ Spectre” music festival in Moscow.  The organiser -- Rushania Nizamudtinova -- praised the performance as “The best opening concert in 10 years since the commencement of the festival”.