Album Notes

Julia is a pianist, composer, and film scholar from St.Petersburg, Russia. She attended New England Conservatory of Music in the 1990s where she was an enthusiastic follower of a celebrated pianist Ran Blake and his “Third Stream” philosophy (now known as Contemporary Improvisation). After intensive private studies with Mr. Blake, Julia went on studying jazz piano and film music composition at the Berklee College of Music.

Among her mentors there, she names pianist Ray Santisi, saxophonist Fred Lipsius, and film composer Michael Rendish as most influential in her development as an artist and composer. After graduating from Berklee with Bachelors in Film Scoring, Ms. Goryuchkina lived and worked in South America. In Argentina, she has lectured and taught at the prestigious Escuela de Música de Buenos Aires (EMBA), which is known to have hosted Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Keith Jarrett, and other world-renowned artists. In Buenos Aires, Julia was also active as a professional composer, scoring several short films by Argentine filmmakers. She was a guest at several radio programs and a TV Show Todas Las Músicas – La Música, with a forum on music in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

In 2001, Julia released an album entitled Little Martha Did It Again, featuring stylistically diverse original compositions, inspired by the works of Russian literature and the music of Sergei Prokofiev, Kurt Weil, Nino Rota, and other notable composers for screen and concert hall. This unique new age album was recorded and mastered at the Newbury Sound Studio and is available for listening and purchase on www.CDBaby.com.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/goryuchkina

Julia’s new album, TheatreWorks, has been released in June 2010. The CD offers Julia’s most recent compositions, which combine the elements of classical, jazz, and, ambient music. TheatreWorks was recorded by Dan Cantor of Notable Productions, Watertown, Massachusetts. It was mixed and mastered by Guilherme Vaz of Estúdio Soma, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Among the personnel who participated in this unique project are Todd Brunel (clarinet and soprano saxophone), John Baboian (guitar), Alexis Gavras (guitar), Scott Barnum (bass), and Scott Goulding (drums and percussion). The album is available for purchase from CDBaby. Several tracks are available on MySpace.com in their full duration.

http://www.myspace.com/juliamartha