Julia Gaines
Julia Hillbrick Gaines is an American percussionist and academic. From 2014-2023, she was director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. She has performed worldwide as a soloist, and released her first album, Tiger Dance, in 2017. She was on the International Board of Directors of the Percussive Arts Society, and became secretary. She has performed with the Missouri Symphony, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Fox Valley Symphony, and the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. She has served as Associate Editor for Percussive Notes, a scholarly journal of the Percussive Arts Society, and became Associate Editor of the Keyboard Percussion section.
Genre: marimba
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Top Tracks
- 2 + 1
- Watcher of the Skies
- The Lord's Prayer (arr. J. Gaines for marimba)
- Lost Mountain Sunrise
- Echoes
- Remembering Belém
- C:M
- ...Ascends the Sky
- Tiger Dance
- Lifting Spirits
- Hannah's Waltz
- White Knuckle Stroll (Live)
- Doom Catcher (Live)
- Higuita! (Live)
- DisArchitecture (Live)
- Bread and Butter (Live)
- Symphony for Percussion: I. Allegro energico (Live)
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