Julia Biłat
Cellist, Improviser, Composer
Julia Biłat’s voices are many as she repeatedly offers herself as a medium:
a carefully-tuned, virtuosic vessel. In her hands, the cello becomes a virtuosic vessel of incantation.
Cecile Rossant
New live video out
Her sense of improvisation is powered by lightening quick thinking, humour and musical wisdom.
Greg Cohen
News
I'm very excited about two upcoming releases scheduled for 2026 with the Relative Pitch Records label.
The first one is my solo album with improvisational compositions for cello solo and voice.
The second one is our debut album with Camila's Nebbia band 'The Hanged One'.
Stay tuned!!
Julia Biłat is a Berlin-based, classically trained cellist, improviser, and composer. She is dedicated to her exploratory, genre-bending practice at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and performance art.
As a cellist, she participates in various classical, jazz, improvisation and performance projects such as Stegreif.Orchestra, Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One or Fabiana Striffler's Archiotic Quintet.
Commissioned by Stegreif.Orchestra, she has composed and co-directed several productions (most recently, #bechange Hildegard von Bingen, 2022/2023).
In recent years, Julia Biłat has focused on a solo format, in which she combines performance art with solo cello improvisations, creating structures where the body and voice - along with spatial awareness - play an important role.
With her solo project she has performed at the Butohpolis Festival in Warsaw, Poland, at the Into The Open Festival in Kuehlhaus, Berlin and at the Intermittenze Festival in Catania, Italy among others.
... in short, we were in a state of enchantment...
Galerie ADAMA, Berlin
About
Discography
- Julia Biłat, Drzewo, 2021
- Leon Parker, The Leo, 2021
- Fabiana Striffler, Archiotic, 2021
- One Earth Orchestra, Journey 2021
- Daniel Schwarzwald, Began Muksam, 2020
- Daniel Schwarzwald, Microcosmos, 2019
- Biwald, Duo with Daniel Schwarzwald, First Meeting, 2017
Projects
SOLO CONCERT
BIŁAT STOLYAR DUO
BIŁAT KOUATE DUO
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Concerts
6.2.2026
Mark Pringle Septet, Berlin tba
19.2.2026
W/Pulse Quartet & Ludwig Wandinger, JOE Festival, Essen, Germany
5.3.2026
Solo, Artacts Festival,
St. Johann, Austria
7.3.2026
W/Nebbia, Hiby, Hession, Artacts Festival, St. Johann, Austria
18.3.2026
W/Vandeweyer, Beyer, Edwards, Sjöström.
Panda Platforma, Berlin
27.3.2026
Solo @ Incense of music 71, Panda Platforma, 20:30 Berlin
10.4.2026
W/Stegreif.Orchester, Kuehlhaus, Berlin, #Escape Valse Premiere
17-19.4.
2026
Improvisations Workshops @Musikhochschule Münster,
w/Stegreif.Orchester
24.4.2026
W/Pulse Quartet, Johanna Borchert, Miles Perkin,Jazzahead Festival
25/26.4.
2026
W/TransTraditionale Festival
Studio concerts @Radialsystem, Berlin
3.9.2026
W/Dudu Kouate, Meakusma Festival, Brussels, Belgium tba
Past (selection)
W/Dudu Kouate @Donau115 Berlin, 20:30h
10.12.2025
W/Isabelle Duthoit, H. Sjöström,
S. Heather@Wolf&Galentz Gallerie, Berlin 19:30h
9.12.2025
W/Trickster Orchestra @Berliner Galerie, Berlin 20h
18.11.2025
Solo @Madame Claude, Berlin
3.11.2025
W/Dudu Kouate @Jazzexzess, House of Music, Berlin 20h
12.10.2025
W/Gerhard Gschlößl, Steve Heather
@Trouble in The East Festival, Panda Platforma, Berlin 20:30h
10.10.2025
Solo @Galerie ADAMA, 19h Berlin
27.9.2025
W/MiC Open Expo Orchestra, Catania, Italy
12.9.2025
W/Stolyar Duo @Kollektiv Nights, Kunstfabrik Schlot Jazz Club, Berlin
27.8.2025
W/Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One @ Parzelle Festival, Dortmund
16.8.2025
W/Friesens Spelunken.Orchester@Jazz-Festival UMRANGIERT, Klasdorf,19:30h
25.7.2025
W/Stegreif.Orchester@Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele #freesolo
28.6.2025
W/ Camila Nebbias The Hanged One, @Morphine Raum, Berlin
24.4.2025
W/ Stegreif.Orchester #freeEroica
@Theater im Delphi, Berlin, 20h
29/30.3.2025
23.2.2025
Solo Tour Italy:
Curva Minore, Contemporary sounds
Cantieri Culturali Alla Zisa, Sala Perriera, Palermo, Sicily,
22.2.2025
Solo Tour Italy:
INTERMITTENZE 45² III edizione,
Tinni Tinni Arts Club, Catania, Sicily,
28.1.2025
Transfigured, Solo Cello Performance,
Into the Open Festival, Kuehlhaus, Berlin 19h
01.12.2024
W/Fabiana Striffler, Archiotic @ Franz Melhose, Erfurt, 20:15h
22.11.2024
W/Almudena Vernhes "Polymorphic Body" Multi-media performance @LAKE STUDIOS Residency, Berlin, 19:30h
14.11.2024
w/Almudena Vernhes, Performance 'Intimacies and Monstrosities of Care',
@90Mil Berlin, 20h
19/26.10.2024
w/Naked String Quartet
Classical String Quartet Residency
@Kit Kat Club, 20h Berlin
24.10.2024
w/Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One
Leipziger Jazz Tage, 20h Leipzig
1.10.2024
w/Stegreif.Orchester and Noam Sivan #Freesolo @Kronberg Festival
12/14.09.2024
w/Naama Tsabar "Estuaries", Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
4.09.2024
Solo
Berlin Solo Impro Festival
@Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
08.06.2024
w/Bertram Burkert, Florian Kästner
@ Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde Apolda, 20h
13.5.2024
/w Stegreif.Orchester @ClassicalNEXT Festival, Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin 19h
28.04.2024
Solo Performance,
Butohpolis Festival, 18h
Warsaw, Poland
12 & 13.04.2024
w/ Naama Tsabar, Exhibition Opening, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 19 & 20h
20.12.2023
Fabiana Striffler Quartet
@Zig Zag Jazz Club
02.11.2023
18.09.2023
W/Stegreif.Orchester
Symphony of Change@ Berlin Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal
12.08.2023
Stegreif.Orchester @Detect Classic Festival
Improphonie
02.06.2023
Goat Sessions with David Fernandez @PAF Berlin
https://www.performingarts-festival.de/en/program/goat-sessions-5
16.11.2022
W/Fabiana Striffler Quintett Rejazz Festival
A-trane Jazz Club, Berlin
16.10.2022
W/Gabriele Glang Vernissage@ Kulturmühle Rechberghausen
23.09.2022
W/Stegreif.Orchester
Recomposition of Hildegard von Bingen by Julia Biłat, Alte Oper Frankfurt
© Julia Biłat - Photography: Daniel Wetzel, Odelia Toder, Dieter Duevelmeyer, D'Amico/Curva Minore, Beethovenfest Bonn(for Stegreif.Orchester)