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Julia Biłat

Cellist, Improviser, Composer


The world of improvising cellists is a rather small one.
The cellist, Julia Biłat stands out in this world for many reasons.

Her sound is “the spirit of the cello”. 
Her sense of improvisation is powered by lightening quick thinking, humour and musical wisdom.

A rare and beautiful combination.

Greg Cohen

 

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Album Drzewo available

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     Julia Biłat is a Berlin based cellist, improviser and composer. She devoted herself intensively to the exploration of her own musical language. After studying classical cello at the Fryderyk Chopin University in Warsaw and the Mt. Royal College of Calgary in Canada, Julia started a co-operation with a jazz pianist Daniel Schwarzwald, with whom she has released two albums; “First Meeting”(2017) and

“Drzewo” (2021) containing mainly original compositions of both artists.

     Since 2018, Julia Biłat has been a member of Stegreif, the Improvising Symphony Orchestra, which explores the possibilities of an improvisation within a symphony orchestra and revolutionises an image of a classical music ensemble. As a classical and improvising cellist Julia has been performing in Europe, Canada, Israel and China, in such concert halls as Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berliner Philharmonie, Schloss Elmau, Konzerthaus Berlin, Radialsystem, Fusion Festival, ‘Sunset Sunrise Jazz Club’ in Paris and more.

 

     Julia has been working with Stegreif.Orchestra, Greg Cohen, Leon Parker, Frank London, Fabiana Striffler, Julia Huelsmann, Fabia Mantwill and more.

As a composer, Biłat has been regularly commissioned by Stegreif to write music for the orchestra, develop improvisation concepts and to lead several productions: Moon Music I “Abschied”, at the Neuköllner Oper Berlin, Freischütz 2021(live stream in Konzerthaus Berlin), #bechange “Feeling” premiered in July 2022 at the Kissinger Sommer Festival, Bad Kissingen, Germany.

     Since 2021, Julia has been working intensively on a solo project inspired by japanese Butoh dance, developing a solo format for a free, radical and holistic improvisation reaching out beyond the musical language and incorporating a performative elements as well.

MUSI
MUSIC


Projects

- Solo (Cello, Voice, Performance)

Intuitive and animalistic; a performance created entirely in the moment. Julia Biłat combines her wide, cross-genred musical knowledge with a free improvisation, performative elements and humour.

- Album Drzewo (2021)

7 tracks, 5 original songs for cello, voice, piano and drums.

- Julia Biłat & Maria Reich

Free improvised Duos for cello and violin

- Album First Meeting (2017)

Cello &Piano Duo with Daniel Schwarzwald (Biwald). Contains original compositions and improvisations of both artists.

- STEGREIF.Orchester

(cellist and co/re-composer)

-Fabiana Striffler Quintett

 

-Leon Parker Group

 

- One Earth Orchestra(OEO)

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CONCERTS

Concerts

23.06.2023

Improphonie Stegreif.Orchester

Saelchen, Holzmarkt 25 Berlin

02.06.2023

Goat Sessions with David Fernandez @PAF Berlin

https://www.performingarts-festival.de/en/program/goat-sessions-5

28.05.2023

Night of the Graphic Music by Grgur Savic,

Kuehlspot Social Club, Berlin

17.05.2023

withGuilherme Rodrigues @Hosek Contemporary, Berlin https://www.hosekcontemporary.com/events

29.04.2023

Mascha Juno Album Release Concert @ Podium Festival Esslingen https://www.podium-esslingen.de/artists/julia-bilat/

17.03.2023

Stegreif Chamber with Ana Prvacki @ Radialsystem, Berlin https://www.digitalinberlin.de/forecast-festival-7-radialsystem/

01.03.2023

Solo @ Donau115

Berlin, 20:30

http://www.donau115.de/

12.02.2023

#bechange "Thinking" Premiere@Dresdener Philharmony

Stegreif.Orchester

25.01.2023

16.11.2022

Fabiana Striffler Quintett Rejazz Festival

A-trane Jazz Club, Berlin

11.11.2022

 Duo & Maria Reich

@ L'ecritoire Salon Berlin

16.10.2022

Cello Butoh Solo

@ Gabriele Glang Vernissage@ Kulturmühle Rechberghausen

04.10.2022

Cello Butoh Solo Performance @ Petersburg Art Space Berlin

24.09.2022

Stegreif Orchester, Improphonie Frankfurt, Palmengarten

23.09.2022

Stegreif.Orchester

Recomposition of Hildegard von Bingen by Julia Biłat, Alte Oper Frankfurt

20.09.2022

Stegreif Orchester, Improfest, Delphi Theater Berlin

18.09.2022

OEO, Weltfest Ludwigshafen

11.09.2022

Fabiana Striffler's band

@ Greven

28.08.2022

Goat sessions #3

Theater Performance @ Hosek Contemporary Berlin

15.07.2022

Premiere of Hildegard von Bingen Recomposed by Julia Bilat

#bechange by Stegreif Orchester, Kissinger Sommer, Bad Kissingen

12.06.2022

OEO and & Maria Reich Duo

@ Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci 

21.05.2022

Julia Hülsmann Oktett, Ulmer Zelt

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PAST SHOWS

Dec 09, 2019

Berliner Philharmonie, Hermann Wolff Room

Dec 05, 2019

Silent Green, Berlin

Nov 28, 2019

Jazzschmiede Düsseldorf

Oct 09, 2019

Premiere, Neuköllner Oper, Berlin

Don Giovanni STEGREIF&Neuköllner Oper, Berlin + 18 more shows until 10th of November

Sep 28, 2019

Theater am Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen am Rhein

Aug 24, 2019

Hochbunker an der Friedberger Anlage, Frankfurt

Aug 15, 2019

Contain't, Stuttgart

Julia Biłat & Maria Reich & Konstantin Döben

https://www.facebook.com/events/2379261802325745/

Jul 09, 2019

Donau115, Berlin

Solo & Witches Brew

Club "Donau115' Donaustraße 115, 12043 Berlin 

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CONTACT

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