julie

...about Julie

Julie's life-long partnership with sacred music debuted publicly at age 10 with her performance of "The Holy City". This anthem from 1942 became one of Julie's signature pieces in an off-and-on 40 year career of performing classical sacred and secular music.

Julie has been heard in concert and on radio in such diverse places as Russia, Ireland, Greece, Alaska, Guam and coast to coast in America. As soloist with the Columbia Chorale in Washington State, Julie received critical acclaim for her performances of the great soprano arias of the world's opera classics.

At age 17, she was impressed that God had a place for her talent but never quite understood what it was to be. Now, with grown children, a satisfying marriage, supportive husband and an abiding relationship with Jesus, God has commissioned Julie with her mission.

"Take timeless Christ centered lyrics from the past and make them new with progressive music which reaches deep into the heart and soul."

For years, Julie knew she wasn't reaching people weaned on rock and roll, jazz, country, R&B and pop. For this vast crowd, traditional musical vehicles seemed to fail to carry the "good news" of God's Grace and the salvation gospel as found in the timeless lyrics of older hymns. Once these hymns were a contemporary, even radical, expression of how faith can touch real life. Sung but not felt, heard but not internalized, the old hymns grew dusty, forgotten and abandoned as unknown. Julie grew increasingly restless and searched for reason in the sacred music of effective contemporary musicians.

One day in 2000, Julie prayed, "Please, God, send your Holy Spirit to guide me. If it will Glorify You, give me new melodies to convey the beautiful words of these hymns to those searching for meaning to life and lead them to Jesus."

The music of MadeNew is God's answer to her prayer.