Julia Pujol Wolter

Julia Pujol Wolter received her first piano lessons at the age of six with Diana Lawton in Ottawa. She studied piano performance at the University of Victoria with Bruce Vogt and later with Christoph Lieske at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she completed her concert diploma. She subsequently pursued studies in Lied accompaniment with Hartmut Höll, Anthony Spiri and Donald Sulzen, completing her master’s degree with distinction in 2004. She participated in masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jacob Lateiner, Oleg Maisenberg, Tatjana Nikolaeva, Imre Rohmann, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel and Breda Zakotnik, and received private lessons from Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

She has performed both as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist in Canada, Spain, France, England, Austria, Germany, Scotland, Slovenia and Luxembourg. In 2003 she was a finalist at the International Lied Competition Schubert und die Moderne in Graz and in 2001 at the chamber music competition Paper de Música in Barcelona.

She has many years of experience as a vocal coach and piano teacher for children and adults. In 2007 she worked as a répétiteur for Salzburg College in the voice studios of Patricia Wise and Dominic Cossa. In 2004 she worked in Aberdeen, Scotland, on a production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the International Youth Festival, and in 2000 in Salzburg on Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, conducted by Elisabeth Fuchs.

For many years she worked as a répétiteur in the private studios of Kammersängerin Grace Bumbry and Kammersängerin Hanna Ludwig, collaborating closely with Grace Bumbry in the preparation of recitals and international concert tours.

Since 2002 she has been a collaborative pianist in the Department of Vocal Studies at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she coaches students in the field of vocal repertoire and Lied. She also teaches a preparatory Lied class for students intending to specialise in the subject.