Julia Biłat
Cellist, Improviser, Composer
Her sense of improvisation is powered by lightening quick thinking, humour and musical wisdom.
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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 large-scale solo cello improvisations, creating coherent structures where the body and voice - along with spatial awareness - play an important role.
Discography
Julia Biłat, Drzewo, 2021
COLLABORATIONS
- Leon Parker, The Leo 2021
- Fabiana Striffler, Archiotic 2021
- One Earth Orchestra, Journey 2021
- Daniel Schwarzwald, Began Muksam 2020
- Daniel Schwarzwald, Microcosmos 2019
To listen/buy album Drzewo
Solo Cello (cello, voice, performance)
Solo performance combining performance art with large-scale solo cello improvisation
Original compositions and songs in polish released in 2021 as a result of a close collaboration with jazz musicians Daniel Schwarzwald and Shachar Elnatan.
Julia Biłat & Maria Reich
#postclassical, Free improvised Duos for cello and violin
STEGREIF.Orchester
Projects
Julia Biłat @Butohpolis'24 Pic.Sylwia Zawadzka
Video
Concerts
28.01.2025
Transfigured, Solo Cello Performance,
Into the Open Festival, Kuehlhaus, Berlin 19h
01.12.2024
W/Fabiana Striffler, Archiotic @ Franz Melhose, Erfurt, 20:15h
30.11.2024
W/Fabiana Striffler, Archiotic @Sowieso Berlin, 20:30h
22.11.2024
W/Almudena Vernhes, Performance "Polymorphic Body" Unfinished Fridays#112 @LAKE STUDIOS Dance Residency, Berlin, 19:30h
14.11.2024
w/Almudena Vernhes, Performance 'Intimacies and Monstrosities of Care', 90Mil Berlin, 20h
14.11.2024
W/Roman Stolyar, Zsolt Sores @Kuehlspot Social Club, Berlin, 20:30h
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
28/29.09.2024
w/Stegreif.Orchester and Noam Sivan
#Freesolo Premiere @ Into the Open Festival, Dephi Theater Berlin
12/14.09.2024
w/Naama Tsabar "Estuaries", Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
13.09.2024
w/Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One @Donau115, Berlin
8.09.2024
7.09.2024
w/Stringbahn
Donau115, Berlin
4.09.2024
Cello Solo
Berlin Solo Impro Festival
@Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin tba
12.06.2024
08.06.2024
w/Bertram Burkert, Florian Kästner
@ Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde Apolda, 20h
30.05.2024
w/The Hanged One @ Sowieso, Berlin
18.05.2024
w/Nick Dunston, Julius Windisch, Jeremy Viner @ Sowieso, Berlin 20:30h
13.5.2024
/w Stegreif.Orchester @ClassicalNEXT Festival, Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin 19h
https://classicalnext.com/event/stegreif-the-improvising-symphony-orchestra/
11.5.2024
/w Lisa Hoppe, Julius Windisch, Jeremy Viner @dim things, Berlin 19:30h
28.04.2024
Solo Performance,
Butohpolis Festival, 18h
Warsaw, Poland
https://www.facebook.com/events/311414405278440/?ref=newsfeed
20.04.2024
12 & 13.04.2024
w/ Naama Tsabar, Exhibition Opening, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 19 & 20h
10.04.2024
Improvised & Experimental #197
w/ Roman Stolyar, Sofia Borges and Johannes von Wrochem @Hosek Contemporary Berlin, 19:30h
8.03.2024
w/ Stegreif String Quartet
@Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
https://nobelprizemuseum.se/en/opening-night-of-the-new-exhibition-these-things-changed-the-world/
27.01.2024
Stegreif.Chamber & Ion Ludwig
Into the Open Festival
Kuehlhaus, Berlin
https://www.intotheopen.eu/events?festival=visions-2024-berlin&event=barenboim-said-akademie-ion-ludwig
20.12.2023
Fabiana Striffler Quartet
@Zig Zag Jazz Club
https://www.zigzag-jazzclub.berlin/program-mai/fabianastrifflerdec
16.11.2023
W/ Nick Dunston, Julius Windisch and Jeremy Viner @ Cafe Plume
18h
05.11.2023
Stegreif.Orchester
SOC, 19h | Kasseler Musiktage, Kassel
02.11.2023
12.10.2023
with Camila Nebbia @ Morphine Raum, Berlin
05.10.2023
Stegreif.Orchester
SOC, 19.30h | Herbstliche Musiktage Bad Urach
https://stegreif.org/termine/symphony-of-change-oder-herbstliche-musiktage-bad-urach
26.09.2023
The Performative Cello &
Gabriele Glang (spoken word)
20h @Raetsche Geislingen an der Steige
https://raetsche.com/programm/gabriele-glang-und-julia-bilat/
18.09.2023
STEGREIF.Orchester
SOC, 20h @ Berlin Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal
https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/musikfest-berlin/programm/2023/kalender/stegreif-the-improvising-symphony-orchestra
08.09.2023
Stegreif.Orchester
Premiere: Symphony of Change
19.30h @ Beethovenfest Bonn
https://www.beethovenfest.de/de/programm-tickets/changesymphony/150
12.08.2023
Stegreif.Orchester @Detect Classic Festival
Improphonie
https://detectclassicfestival.de/en/lineup-2023/stegreif-orchester/
10.08.2023
15.07.2023
String Trio, 20h @ Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin
w/Marie Takahashi, Alex Fragenheim
24.06.2023
Fabiana Striffler Quintett
@Erfurt Jazz Club https://www.jazzclub-erfurt.de/?b=1000077&c=ED1000173
23.06.2023
Improphonie Stegreif.Orchester
Saelchen, Holzmarkt 25 Berlin
05.06.2023
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
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
@ Gabriele Glang Vernissage@ Kulturmühle Rechberghausen
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
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
PAST SHOWS
© Julia Biłat - Photography: Odelia Toder, Sylwia Zawadzka, Julia Milberger