EVENTS AND NEWS

(Performance, Research, and Teaching)

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2024 SCHEDULED EVENTS

Jan. 07, Igreja de Beja, Portugal, 4pm

Concerto de Reis, w/Padre Cartageno, Coro do Carmo

Solo (voice, harp, and organ) and choir participation

Sacred repertoire, Igreja do Carmo (Portugal time) 

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Jan. 27, The Mitchell, Dallas, Sat, 9pm-12am

Bossa Nova live music w/Jazz ensemble Ramo de Oliveira

Live performance of Brazilian Bossa Nova tunes (vocalist)

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Feb. 8th, Clarinet, Soprano, Piano Trio Performance, 6:30pm

Jerry Hengjian's final DMA Recital (Clarinet), Recital Hall UNT, 6:30pm (CST) by Franz Schubert and David Biedenbender

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Feb 21, Solo Performance - International Language Day, 3pm

UNT International Center, Marquis Hall, 2-5pm

Performance of original repertoire in Portuguese

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Feb 24, Regines Lounge, Dallas, Sat, 7:30pm-10:30pm

Bossa Nova live music w/Jazz ensemble Ramo de Oliveira

Live performance of Brazilian Bossa Nova tunes (vocalist)

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March 1, D.M.A. Lecture-Recital, Choir Room, UNT, 6pm

Presentation (lecture and performance demonstration) of Missa Festiva (1817) vocal score of Marcos Portugal by Júlia Coelho. Participation of pianist Eunjin An, soprano Morgan Minear, tenor Pietro Pizzato, and bass Isaac Carlin

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March 8, Regines Lounge, Dallas, Friday, 7:30pm-10:30pm

Bossa Nova live music w/Jazz ensemble Ramo de Oliveira

Live performance of Brazilian Bossa Nova tunes (vocalist)

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March 17, CUUPS Service (Cyn Qooad), DUUF

(Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship), 10am

Hymn Leader and Musician (vocal and instrumental selections and performance for entire service - voice, Gothic harp, keyboard, loop pedal, and tongue steel drum)

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Mar 31, Easter service solo performance (voice, organ, harp)

Christ the Redeemer Church, Fort Worth, TX, 10:30am

--Voice and organ (Felicity Mazur-Park) - José Maurício motet "Te Christe solum novimus" (18th/19th Brazilian sacred music)

--Voice and gothic harp (Júlia Coelho) - Hildegard von Bingen, "O viridissima virga" (12th German sacred music)

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April 14, DUUF Service (Rev. Lora Brandis) 

Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 10am

Hymn Leader and Musician; piano: Ms. Cathy Sassen

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April 20, Solo concert "Meditation Through Music," 

at the "Quantum Wellness Spa," Denton, 7pm-9pm

Solo vocal performance concert accompanied with gothic harp, tongue Steel Drum, crystal bowl, psaltery, and lyre-harp.

Music by Hildegard of Bingen, Júlia Coelho, Martin Codax, Kory Reeder, and traditional Sephardi.

Sign-up: https://quantumwellnessspa.com/events/

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April 23, Voice and Harp Performance, DVS Departmental

UNT CoM Voertman Hall, 4pm

Original piece "Que prazer havedes, senhor?," 13th-century Galician poetry by Portuguese king D. Dinis. 

For voice, harp, and drone, performed and composed in 13-th century style by Júlia Coelho

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Apr. 26, The Mitchell, Dallas, Friday, 9pm-12am

Bossa Nova live music w/Jazz ensemble Ramo de Oliveira

Live performance of Brazilian Bossa Nova tunes (vocalist)

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May 2, Steve's Wine Bar, Denton, Thursday, 7:30pm-9:30pm

Bossa Nova live music w/Jazz ensemble Ramo de Oliveira

Live performance of Brazilian Bossa Nova tunes (vocalist)

 

June 17-21, Symposium Present. "Early Modern Eloquence." Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

17th-Century Music & Rhetoric. Invitation as an early-career scholar; funded by Southern Methodist University, Dallas 

 

Summer 2024 (May-Aug) Research Grant Awards to Italy

Research travel grants and residential scholarships for

archival research in Northern Italian archives (details below)

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RECENT NEWS: TEACHING AND RESEARCH

2024 Graduate Presser Award 

Júlia Coelho is a University of North Texas graduate in vocal performance (DMA, 2024) and musicology candidate (Ph.D., 2025) with related fields in early music and in music theory.

This Presser Award supports a recording project of her song cycle-monodrama, “O Tempo fora do Tempo: uma viagem cronológica sobre o Tempo e Doença" (“Time Outside of Time: A Chronological Journey on Time and Illness,” 2023), written for Pierrot Ensemble and Júlia Coelho, soprano. The work sets her poetry written in European Portuguese to the music of composer Kory Reeder.

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2024/25 Faculty Position Appointment: Adjunct Professor, UNT Frisco, College of Music, "Music as Communication" 

Appointed as the new faculty member adjunct at UNT Frisco

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2023/24 Faculty Position Appointment: Adjunct Professor, UNT Dallas. Music Appreciation: 19-20th-C. American Music 

Appointed as the new Music Appreciation Adjunct at UNTD

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2023 Harmonia Journal Editor: Vol. 20 Published 

2023 edition, Vol. 20, edited by Júlia Coelho, seen here

Musicology, Music Theory, and Ethnomusicology Journal, UNT

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Summer 2024 Research Grant Awards to Italy

Research travel grants and residential scholarships for

archival research in Northern Italian archives

Ph.D. Musicology Dissertation project funded by:

      Giorgio Cini Fondazione, Venice;

      UNT Graduate Student Research Award, Denton;

      UNT GREAT Grant, Denton;

      CoM MHTE Travel Award, Denton;

      Southern Methodist University, Dallas

 

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RECENT RECORDINGS:

Album O Tempo fora do Tempo (forthcoming, 2025)

Music by Kory Reeder (2023);Poetry set by Júlia Coelho (2022)

Song cycle / Monodrama about Time and Illness.  

For solo soprano (Júlia Coelho) and chamber ensemble.

(Duration: 49 minutes)

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Electroacoustic Cantata La Solitudine delle Moltitudini - "The Loneliness of the Multitudes" (2023)

Music by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli; Poetry by Júlia Coelho

For 16 female voices: soprano Júlia Coelho. Presented at “The Art of Connection,” MEET Digital Arts Center of Milan (Italia) 

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 "Tabletop Opera" The Shopping List (2023)

Music by Marco Nardelli; Libretto by Ken Eklund 

Final recording presented at 2023 Currents New Media Festival, June, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2023

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RECENT COMPETITIONS:

2nd prize - 2023 Eighteenth-Century Music Charleston International Competition: Solo Voice Category

Performance of Marcos Portugal "Laudamus te," Missa Festiva (1818) Júlia Coelho, soprano. Destin Wernicke, organ reduction and performance. Category +30 years old

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Finalist - 2023 American Prize Competition (National):

Art Song and Oratorio Performance Category (solo)

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Finalist and Honorable mention - 2023 American Prize 

Virtual Performance Category (solo)

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 PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, LECTURE-RECITALS:​

2024

March 1 2024, DMA Lecture-Recital, Choir Room, UNT, 6pm

Presentation (lecture and performance demonstration) of Missa Festiva vocal score of Marcos Portugal by Júlia Coelho. Participation of pianist Eunjin An, soprano Morgan Minear, tenor Pietro Pizzato, and bass Isaac Carlin

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June 17-21, Symposium Present. "Early Modern Eloquence." Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

17th-Century Music & Rhetoric. Invitation as an early-career scholar; funded by Southern Methodist University, Dallas ​

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2023

Jan. 22 2023, DUUF, Denton TX, Invited Talk, Guest Speaker - “Beyond Visibility” (On Invisible Disability) 

DUUF service worship leading; reflection on socio-cultural implications and perceptions on invisible disabilities in modern Western society. Music offered by J. Coelho and Levi Walls

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Feb. 25 2023, National Conference NAGPS: Invited Panelist - Session "Mental Health as Community- and Self-Care” 

National Association of Graduate-Professional Students 36th-National Conference (online). Conf. theme: “Teaching to Transform - Empowering Students to Succeed through Ownership and Advocacy.”

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​May 04 2023, 03:30PM, UNT, Denton TX, Lecture-Recital

Zeca Afonso: Music & Poetry, Júlia Coelho:

Lecture-Recital on Zeca Afonso 's life and works in Portuguese Protest Music as an icon of anti-dictatorship resistance;

Presentation + 1H-performance of Zeca Afonso pieces arranged for and performed with voice and gothic harp by Júlia Coelho​

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Nov. 2-3, 2023 Texoma NATS Artist Series, UNT

Lecture-Recital on Thomas Campion, voice and lute

Lecture-recital "Music and Prosody in A Book of Ayres (1601)

of Thomas Campion (1567–1620)" accepted for presentation

at the upcoming Texoma NATS Artist Series.

Júlia Coelho, lecture preparation and soprano performance.

Hector Torres, renaissance alto lute.

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