KAY, Juliana

Juliana is a Melbourne-based conductor, composer and teacher with a long love for choirs and choral music. Equally at home working with children, community groups and professionals, she rehearses with at least 250 singers every week, most notably in her role as the Artistic Director of Young Voices of Melbourne. In 2018 she founded innovative chamber choir Choral Edge, which saw her regularly experimenting with multimedia performances and collaborations with comedians, visual artists and theatre directors.

As a composer, Juliana strives to create music that is both engaging for singers and memorable for audiences. Her works have been performed by choirs across Australia and are available through the Australian publisher SingScore. Her achievements in composition include joint-winning the Ralph Morton Memorial Composition Competition in 2020 and receiving a commission in 2022 to write and record the song-cycle "Earth-Shaped Hearts" for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2024 she was one of four finalists for the Australian Art Music Awards: Choral Work of the Year.