Julie Simson has sung with opera companies throughout the United States including Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Memphis, and Opera Colorado. She has also performed as soloist in major oratorio works with the Denver, Colorado Springs, Cedar Rapids, Omaha and Milwaukee Symphonies and in Boulder at the MahlerFest and Bach Festival. She won the prestigious Mozart Prize at the International Belvedere Competition in Vienna. After winning First Prize at the East and West Artists International Competition, she made her New York recital début in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Julie Simson was featured in two concerts at the International George Crumb Festival in Prague in the Czech Republic, and in recital and master-classes at the Hochschule für Musik Hans Eisler in Berlin Germany. Her recordings include Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Colorado MahlerFest and Horatio Parker’s Hora Novissima on the Albany label, and an American Art Song CD on the songs of Richard Faith. She is currently a Professor of Voice at the University of Colorado-Boulder.