Giulia Barba

Background

About Giulia Barba

Born in Bologna in 1984, Italian reed player Giulia Barba decided to pursue musical studies after she majored in Philosophy at the University of Bologna. Only then she began studying music, first in Italy, then in the Netherlands, attending the prestigious Conservatorium Van Amsterdam. In 2012 Giulia had the honor to be a member of the Arena Project, together with the most talented musicians from Europe such as Karlis Auzins, Miklos Borbely, Eva Bjerga Haugen, Inge Breistein, Petru Popa and Anton Hunter. The Arena Project performed at the prestigious MaiJAzz Festival in Stavanger (Norway) led by famous composer and bass player Per Zanussi. The performance was recorded and published as a limited edition album. In 2013 she released her debut album The angry St.Bernard, which was nominated within the best jazz cds of the year (Jazzism, NL). Published by record label Blue Serge, the album was recorded in Amsterdam together with Sri Hanuraga, Luca Dalpozzo, Sanem Kalfa, Gidon Nunes Vaz, Christian Ferlaino and Joan Terol Amigo, at the well known Studio 150. In 2015 Giulia released a second album together with german saxophonists Conni Nicklaus and Olympia Jensen: Tanz Frank Tanz. Still in 2015 she worked together with actors Mariano Arenella and Elena Ferrari in order to compose the soundtrack of their theater play La dolce guerra, which was named within the best plays of the theater season 2015-2016 by the prestigious review Milano Teatri. From 2016 Giulia has been working with singer John De Leo and The Tower Jazz Composer Orchestra. Her first composition for Big Band was released with the album "Tower Jazz Composer Orchestra" in 2019, and it's called "Trova l'intruso".