[featuring Julie Bryce]

Julie Bryce is an American multi-instrumentalist, who began classical piano training at age 8, and subsequently guitar, drums, electric bass, saxophone and classical guitar. She took on classical double bass as a 20 year old university sophomore and by age 23 was presented with a trio of acceptance and scholarship letters to the Masters programs at Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School. Graduating summa cum laude from Manhattan, under Timothy Cobb, principal NY Philharmonic and bass chair Manhattan/Juilliard, she then immigrated to Switzerland and spent nearly two decades with the Zürich Symphony, besides the international studio of the Zürich Opernhaus and others. She has been performing with orchestras since ’92, under the batons of such maestros as Kurt Masur, Edvard Tshivzhel, David Machado (Brazil) and Vincent De Kort (Europe). Julie Bryce later shifted residence to France, and yet during the pandemic finally repatriated to the USA. With orchestras on pause, she began composing original jazz fusion, on the record label Improv Unedited, and also works as a session musician, recording engineer, music educator, and electric bassist (and partly keyboardist and drummer) with original bands. Her original compositions are unmistakably a form of jazz, yet ones uniquely infused with her symphonic background, bearing the influences of such favorites as Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Bernstein and Bartók.

She introduces the public to a new genre called “orchestral funk”.