Composer Consultations

Get Help Writing Music for Clarinets!

Have a lick that sounds cool but aren’t sure how it lays on the instrument?

Have an idea for a color part of your piece and aren’t sure what clarinet technique would best convey this?

Want come more general information about extended techniques on the instrument?

Have a notation question?

Julia is here to help with all of that!

As a clarinetist/bass clarinetist specializing in New Music who has commissioned and premiered 17 works within the past decade, Julia works with composers to optimize their writing for clarinet.

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Consulting services include…

  • A score perusal and run through, and notes on areas that don’t lay right on the clarinet but might work better in a different key, different octave, etc. 

  • An overview of clarinet techniques, sounds, and corresponding notation

  • Guidance on how to best utilize clarinet or bass clarinet in your next composition   

  • Guidance on clarinet + electronics/EFX clarinet works

Synchronous and asynchronous services are both available.

“I’m a composer of challenging contemporary-style music. I have collaborated with many different performers in my career and Julia is one of the most passionate, intelligent, and empathetic musicians of them all. It can be a challenge for performers and composers to communicate over the aesthetics and the mechanics of a range of effects. But Julia is able to make even the more esoteric concepts clear. I always finish our interactions inspired and encouraged to make more weird and crazy music!”

-Bill Clay, Composer in Phoenix, AZ

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Work With Julia

Ready to get started? Contact Julia for a custom quote.

“Julia’s talent and enthusiasm for experimental music were exactly what I needed to move my composition closer to realization. Her insightful questions brought clarity to my musical intentions and her feedback helped me with all of the notational components of my piece, including its structure (the whole), method (note-by-note) and form (the feel). If you want your composition to inspire performers, as well as audiences, hire her!”

-Pamela Rogers, Electronic and New Music Composer