Julia Jones

Born in Droitwich Spa in 1961; the conductor Julia Jones studied at the Guildhall School of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in Vienna. She was Kapellmeister at the Opernhaus Köln and at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, from 1998 to 2002 principal conductor at the Theater Basel and from 2008 to 2011 principal conductor of the Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon. In August 2016 she took over the direction of the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, which she led as general music director until 2021. She has conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg as well as at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Opera Stockholm and Den Norske Opera and at the Salzburger Festspiele. For hd-klassik she directed the albums Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal LIVE Vol. 2 (2018) and Vol. 3 (2021).