Júlia Coelho comes from Portugal and currently lives in Denton (Texas). Previously, she  worked and studied for several years in Italy and then Missouri. As a scholar-performer-educator, she is active in research and  publication, performance, and teaching. Although her performance and research speciality has a focus in Early Music, she also embraces several other music genres, from Fine Arts New Music to Jazz standards, Bossa Nova, Portuguese Folk and Fado music, as well as traditional Jewish Sephardi repertoire.

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    Ms. Coelho currently works as a Music Appreciation Adjunct Faculty at the University of North Texas, Dallas, and as a Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas in the Music History area. In addition, she performs regularly at a variety of musical events through PhilosMelodia: The Singing Harp, and DUUF as Hymn Leader, often accompanying her singing with the Gothic harp, psaltery, piano, lyre, or keyboard. 

   Besides her music and research-related activities, she writes poetry in Portuguese from the age of 9, now writing also in Italian, French, and English languages. She published an original book of poetry called Fragmentos de Infinito (2017; see publications section).

    Ms. Coelho holds a BA in Philosophy (minor in Foreign Languages), three music-related Masters’ degrees in Portugal, Italy, and the US, and she is currently pursuing two doctoral degrees at the University of North Texas: Ph.D. Musicology (AbD, with a related field in Early Music) and a DMA in Vocal Performance (related field in Music Theory). Her PhD dissertation and current larger research project is entitled "Representations of Disability in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera," while her DMA dissertation consists in completing a vocal score edition of unedited Sacred work by 18th-century composer Marcos Portugal.

​   As a scholar / researcher / writer, she has  publications in English, Portuguese, and Italian in Music History, Music Theory, and Philosophy (see publications section). She has presented papers at regional, national, and international conferences on Monteverdi and Mozart in the U.S. and in Europe, as well as several lecture-recitals and invited talks on Thomas Campion, Portuguese history and music, Protest Music, and Music and Disability.

(See CV for detailed information on education, publications, conferences, and professional experience).

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   As a soprano (primary instrument), Ms. Coelho performs regularly in a variety of musical contexts and events, from formal concerts to recitals, weddings, services, etc. She records music professionally on a regularly basis (including being featured in 3 albums so far, plus 3 upcoming albums), has performed in several operas and chamber music concerts in the U.S. and in Europe, and has won several performance awards at national and international competitions. 

(See Resumé for more information on performance experience and the Music section on this website).

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    As an educator, Ms. Coelho has over a decade of teaching experience in applied music, music history, music theory, and languages. At the University of North Texas, Dallas, she teaches Music Appreciation / American Music classes, while also working as a  Teaching Fellow in the Music History area at the University of North Texas, Denton. In the Summer, she works as an instructor for pre-college classes at UNT, namely the courses "Music in Culture and Society," "introduction to Philosophy," "Popular Music," "Music Appreciation," "Italian as a Foreign Language," and "European Portuguese Language and Culture." 

   In addition to her university teaching duties, she teaches private lessons in voice, piano, and composition (ages 2-70+), as well as group classes focused on musical theater and early childhood education (ages 2-12).

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​     Prior to her work in music, she studied Philosophy and Foreign Languages, teaching, translating, and researching in these two areas--a work that she continues today, extending it now to translation and research in musicology and music theory topics. She completed her Undergraduate degree in Lisbon (Portugal) and finished her last year in Salerno, Italy (2010). It was there that she began her music studies as a Fine Arts singer, continuing her academic and professional endeavors in music performance, research, and teaching in the U.S. after 2014.