About

Julia Gershkoff is a Soprano in Salt Lake City. Some highlights of her recent local performances include Guido’s Mother in Nine with Hart Theater Company and Water/A Rose in The Little Prince with Utah Opera. Soon she will be singing as a soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with UVU and premiering the role of Silence in The Romance of Silence with Opera Contempo.

During her time as a Resident Artist with Utah Opera, she performed Micaëla in La tragédie de Carmen, Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tina in Flight, and Kate in The Pirates of Penzance. With the renowned Utah Symphony, she has performed Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Handel’s Messiah, the Annual Christmas Pops concerts called “Here Comes Santa Claus!” and a filmed concert entitled “Light on the Horizon”. She recently performed Bach’s BWV 147 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben with the Cathedral of the Madeleine and sang excerpts from Dowland’s The First Book of Songs or Ayres with the NOVA Chamber Music Series.

Julia attended Wolf Trap Opera as a Studio Artist where she performed in scenes as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Despina in Così fan tutte, and Ginevra in Ariodante. She returned to Wolf Trap for the Summer of 2021 to cover La Fée in Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot, Johanna in Sweeney Todd.

Other roles Julia has performed include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at USC, Joan of Arc in The Maid of Orleans at the Russian Opera Workshop, and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at Mark Oswald’s Summer Program. She sang her first operatic role as Servilia in La clemenza di Tito at Ithaca College.

Julia received her M.M. in Vocal Arts and Opera while working with Elizabeth Hynes at the University of Southern California ‘20, and her B.M. in Vocal Performance while working with Marc Webster at Ithaca College ‘18.

Outside of her singing career, Julia loves her job at Odyssey House of Utah as their Organizational Development Specialist. She enjoys listening to podcasts about pop culture or psychology, gardening, and doing yoga.

Updated April 2024