Julie Comparini studied Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and singing and early music with Ruth Riedel and Harry van der Kamp at the Bremen Hochschule für Künste. As a singer, actress and dancer she has appeared in various staged and semi-staged productions, including Orpheus, oder die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe (DonauFestwochen), Doktor und Apotheker (Schloss Rheinsberg), Weihnachtsoratorium revisited (Festspielhaus St. Pölten), Die Gelbe Tapete (Theaterbar Berlin), King Arthur (Ruhrtriennale, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden) and Jedermann tanzt (Staatstheater Oldenburg). As a concert and ensemble singer she has appeared under Thomas Hengelbrock, Gustav Leonhardt and Marc Minkowski, and sings reguarly with the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, the Schola Heidelberg and the Ensemble Weser-Renaissance. She teaches singing at the Bremen Hochschule für Künste.