JULIAN GAU

conductor • composer • performer

Projects

I serve as conductor of the Horizon Ensemble, a community orchestra that performs music by friends and music of history. Our next concert is on Sunday, October 15 at 3 PM, at the Church of the Covenant on 67 Newbury Street in Boston. Come see us perform! This is our first chamber concert, featuring piano pieces, songs, a duet, and a brass sextet. At the end we will feature William Grant Still's Mother and Child for string orchestra, as well as Grigori Balasanyan's new work Silent Tears for two sopranos and chamber orchestra. Come dream with us!


I have a lot of experience in music engraving. My most recent major project was Louise Farrencs Nonet, from 1849, for which there was formerly no free edition. You can find my edition of the Nonet here on IMSLP.

Currently I am touching up my edition of Fanny Hensel's Overture in C. If you have anything you are interested in asking me to engrave, feel free to contact me!


zFestival is a virtual new music festival that began in July 2020. The festival unites composers, performers, and audio engineers to create new works to be performed digitally. I participated as a cellist in the summer 2020 event, as a composer in the autumn 2020 zFestival Academy event, and as a cellist again in the summer 2021 festival.