“Transfixed by her pure tone and coloratura agility, listeners gave her an enthusiastic standing ovation. “(Visalia Times Delta)

Soprano Julia Grizzell's coloratura sparkles in repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary.  Most recently she performed the role of Second Woman in Dido and Aeneas with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale,  the title role in Verdi's Luisa Miller with Verismo Opera, and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Egitto with the Handel Opera Academy in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland. 

Julia is an avid concert soloist.  She has performed the soprano solo in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Orff's Carmina Burana and Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, all with the Sequoia Symphony Orchestra.  Other solo performances include Rutter's Magnificat and Requiem, and Mozart's Requiem and Coronation Mass in C minor, which she sang throughout Italy, Prague, and Budapest with the Biola University Chorale.

Ensemble performances include The Abduction from the Seraglio with Opera San José, the rarely performed Massenet opera Le Cid with Odyssey Opera in Boston, Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust, Falla's La Vida Breve, and the world premiere of John Harbison's Koussevitsky Said at the Tanglewood Music Festival, as well as Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Brahms’ Requiem with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Bach's St. John Passion with the Back Bay Chorale at Harvard University. 

Julia holds a Master of Music degree from Florida State University, and a Bachelor

of Music degree from Biola Conservatory of Music. She also studied at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.