The International Cello Festival is full swing here in Winnipeg. Along with all the great concerts and masterclasses, there is also a competition that makes up the festival. The winner of the Zara Nelsova Memorial Award for this year's festival is Montreal's Julie Hereish. She came by the Classic 107 studio to talk with host Claudia Garcia de la Huerta and host "In Training" Sarah Kirsch.

 

 

You can watch Julie perform one last time Sunday afternoon (June 22) in Eckhardt-Grammatte Hall at the University of Winnipeg. The recital is at 1:00 PM.

For tickets go HERE

Since Julie started to learn the cello, her teachers have been Monique Joachim, Jocelyne Leduc, Denis Brott, Johanne Perron, Carole Sirois – and also Stefan Kropfitsch whom she met in Vienna during an exchange within the framework of her Masters studies at Université de Montréal and with whom, later on, she did a one-year post-graduate program.

Julie won the Canada Music Competition in solo (2009) and in chamber music (2008), with the pianist Michel-Alexandre Broekaert. In 2011, she received the Peter Mendell prize and won the Orchestre symphonique de l’Université de Montréal concerto competition.

In the fall of 2013, Julie participated in a General Public tour with Les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, in duet with Michel-Alexandre Broekaert. While developing her chamber music activities, Julie is a cellist of the Arkea ensemble and since 2012, has played regularly as a supernumerary cellist with Les Violons du Roy.