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My three-year doctoral journey
At the moment of writing this post, my graduation was almost 3 months ago and I am officially a Doctor of Music in Performance. It has been a really long journey, even though one can say it was “only” three years, as I did the doctorate full-time as opposed to part-time, which can take up…
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Debut in Rome – Folgori della musica, September 2025 (Rome, Italy)
In September 2025, Julia made her debut in Rome in a solo piano recital as part of the Concerti del Tempietto during the Festival Musicale delle Nazioni – Notti Romane al Teatro di Marcello. The backdrop of the venue was the historic Teatro di Marcello, which created a beautiful atmosphere under the Roman starry night.…
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Her Voice: Celebrating women composers and their inspirations, June 2025 (Malta)
The recital presented a programme that intertwined music by Amy Beach and Valborg Aulin with works by Franz Schubert/Liszt and Fryderyk Chopin. At the heart of the concert were the compositions of Beach and Aulin, whose piano writing and performance challenges formed the focus of Julia’s doctoral research. Their works were performed in Malta for…
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Listening to Your Heroes’ Lives — and How It Affects You as a Musician
In the last couple of years, I had the amazing experience of listening to two top living women pianists whose recordings shaped the musician within me. The first on my list was the lioness herself — Martha Argerich. I had initially planned to see her live in Vienna at the Musikverein in February 2020, but…
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Julia Miller Plays series, 2019 (Malta)
In 2019 Julia held a series of piano recitals in The Green Room of Pjazza Teatru Rjal in Valletta. Those concerts were mostly concentrated on Romantic music from the repertoire of Franz Schubert or Frederick Chopin but also introduced Maltese audiences to compositions by Polish composers like Witold Lutosławski, Karol Szymanowski or Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
