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Julia Biłat is a Berlin based cellist, performer and composer. She has devoted herself intensively to exploring her own musical and performative language.
As a classically trained and improvising cellist, she participates in numerous musical projects such as Stegreif.Orchestra, Fabiana Striffler's Quintet, Maria Reich Duo and others.
Commissioned by Stegreif.Orchestra, she regularly composes, develops improvisational concepts and directs several productions (most recently #bechange Hildegard von Bingen 2022).
In the last two years, Biłat has focused on a project inspired by Japanese Butoh dance, in which she is developing a solo format for free, radical and holistic improvisation that goes beyond musical language to include performative elements.
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 based on radical and holistic improvisation. With body, voice, cello and space.
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Original songs (in polish) and compositions, performed in collaboration with various instrumentalists
Free improvised Duos for cello and violin
Projects
Video
Concerts
4.09.2024
Cello Solo
Berlin Solo Impro Festival
@Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin tba
30.05.2024
w/The Hanged One @ Sowieso, Berlin
18.05.2024
w/Nick Dunston, Julius Windisch, Jeremy Viner @ Sowieso, Berlin
11.5.2024
/w Lisa Hoppe, Julius Windisch, Jeremy Viner @dim things, Berlin
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
Dec 09, 2019
Berliner Philharmonie, Hermann Wolff Room
Kindergarten concerts Berliner Philharmoniker
Dec 05, 2019
Silent Green, Berlin
Babylon Orchester
Nov 28, 2019
Jazzschmiede Düsseldorf
Fabia Mantwill Quintett
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
One Earth Orchestra
Aug 24, 2019
Hochbunker an der Friedberger Anlage, Frankfurt
One Earth Orchestra
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
© Julia Biłat - Photography: Odelia Toder, Dovile Sermokas, Julia Milberger