Julia Antonovitch is a Russian pianist and répétiteur with extensive international experience in opera and vocal coaching. From 2007 to 2020, she worked at the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim, specialising in Russian repertoire. She has been a member of the Opera Studies Department at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 1993.
Russian pianist Julia Antonovitch studied piano performance at the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg with Nathan Perelman, followed by studies at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Imre Rohmann and further artistic training at the International Bartók Seminar in Szombathely with Zoltán Kocsis and Imre Rohmann.
She has accompanied masterclasses by Marjana Lipovšek and Alfred Burgstaller and was an official accompanist at the International Mozart Competition. She has also performed in numerous productions at Salzburg State Theatre, the Chiemgau Opera Festival and the Laubach Opera Workshop. In 2007, she was engaged for the Salzburg Festival production of Eugene Onegin (Barenboim/Breth). This was followed by an invitation from Daniel Barenboim to the Berlin State Opera, where she worked as a répétiteur specialising in Russian repertoire from 2007 to 2020. She participated in the new productions of The Gambler (Barenboim/Tcherniakov), Eugene Onegin (Barenboim/Freyer) and The Tsar's Bride (Barenboim/Tcherniakov), and worked with many leading singers, including René Pape, Rolando Villazón, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Anatoli Kotscherga, Kwangchul Youn, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Olga Peretyatko, Kristīne Opolais, Anna Samuil, Aida Garifullina and Violeta Urmana.
She has worked in the Opera Studies Department at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 1993.