Julia Werntz
Music Theory
Julia Werntz earned her Bachelor's Degree in Oboe Performance from NEC in 1988. She studied composition independently with Joe Maneri for several years, and in 2000, earned her Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from Brandeis University where she is a member of the faculty. She is also Artistic Director of the Boston Microtonal Society.
Since the mid-1990s, her music, mostly chamber and solo pieces, has been almost exclusively microtonal, and has been performed in concert series and festivals around the Northeastern United States and Europe, and heard on the Capstone CD All in Your Mind: Music of Julia Werntz and John Mallia. She has written articles on microtonal and other contemporary music, most notoriously "Adding Pitches: Some New Thoughts, Ten Years After Perspectives of New Music's Forum: Microtonality Today" in Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 39, No. 2 (2001).
B.M., New England Conservatory. Ph.D., Brandeis University. Also faculty of Brandeis University.