Julie Iwasa studied classical ballet at the Matsuyama Ballet School, and graduated with a music degree from Tokai University’s School of Humanities and Culture. She studied baroque dance under Dorothy Olsson, Kaspar Mainz, Thomas Baird, and is the author, with Minoru Yoshizawa, of Delight in Baroque Dance and Music, whose second volume is forthcoming. Since 2015, she has performed as a soloist and assistant teacher in baroque operas on scholarship at the Amherst Early Music Festival.Julie performs as a recitalist in Japan, the U.S., France, and Taiwan, teaches independently, and leads workshops for musicians in Japan. She is an organizer of the Iris baroque dance class in Tokyo and the Baroque Dance Academy in Osaka, and a committee member for the Bach Workshop of the Aaron Copland School of Music at CUNY, held in Japan.
