Bogorad-Kogan, Julia

Flautist from Washington, D.C., who began studying when she was nine years old and performed with the DC Youth Orchestra while attending Woodrow Wilson High School. She furthered her education at the Indiana University School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory and the Yale University School of Music. Her instructors comprised Marcel Moyse, Thomas Nyfenger, James Pellerite and Robert Willoughby.

When she was twenty-two years old, she became principal flute of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Other groups with whom she has worked include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble and the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble.

On 26^th June 2006, American Public Media aired the SPCO’s performance of “Concerto No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra” by Dmitri Shostakovich, with Stephen Prutsman at the keys. This was bookended by Prutsman’s own “Curious Hymns and Cosmic Spaces” and Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 1 in C”.

Julia was the flautist du jour on 14^th December 2007 when the SPCO offered up “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050” by Johann Sebastian Bach.

On 22^nd March 2009, Julia’s mother and son joined her for a recital at the Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ that celebrated the works of Bohuslav Martinu. Julia’s mother knew Martinu personally, and it was for her he penned “Merry Christmas 1941 to Hope Castagnola”. This was on the program along with “First Sonata for Flute and Piano”, with Margo Garrett, and “Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano” (transcribed for viola) with Garrett and Julia’s son, Ben Ullery.

Julia interpreted Elliott Carter’s “Esprit rude/Esprit doux” with clarinetist Timothy Paradise and Beethoven’s “Serenade in D, Op. 25” with violinist Sunmi Chang and violist JuSabina Thatcher on 3^rd December 2010.

On 31^st March 2011, she was the solo flautist when the SPCO performed J.S. Bach’s “Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067”. She and Garrett reunited for Aaron Copland’s “Duo for Flute and Piano” on 21^st October 2011.

The SPCO juxtaposed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with modernist Edgard Varese at Ordway Center on 25^th May 2012. Julia again took up solo duties on Varese’s “Density 21.5”. Also included were Mozart’s “Piano Concerto in C major, K. 503”, with Jeffrey Kahane, and “Symphony No. 40 in G minor”.

In 2013, Julia rounded up a five-week stint with the National Symphony Orchestra, which included stops in Europe and Oman.

Recordings on which she appears include: Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 2 & 3 by Pablo Casals; Copland: Appalachian Spring by Hugh Wolff; Flute Music of the Paris Conservatory with Margo Garrett; Georg Friedrich Handel: Flute Sonatas, Opus 1, Numbers I-VI with harpsichordist Layton James and bassoonist Charles Ullery; Love Songs and Lullabies by Sharon Isbin; Macy: Reflections by John Jenson; Provocative by Johnny Gill; and, 20 Heavenly Lullabies by Thomas Kinkade.

In the field of music education, she has taught privately and served on the faculties of the Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota School of Music.

She has also been a student again herself, studying ballet at St. Paul’s Dance Spectrum.

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