Recorder
Juliana is a recorder player, whistle player, composer, and teacher based in Sheffield, UK. Her work spans performance, composition, and creative collaboration across classical, contemporary, and improvised music.
A graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, she has performed for television, theatre, opera, and radio, with credits including the BBC, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Manchester Collective. She has also played recorder for film and television including The Thing With Feathers starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Disney+ series Renegade Nell and documentary The Salt Path Scandal (Sky).
She co-directs Emergence Collective, an improvised minimalist ensemble of around 40 musicians, which has performed widely in the UK, released several albums, and was featured in a four-page article in The Wire, alongside praise from The Guardian.
As a soloist and collaborator, she performs regularly in experimental contexts using extended recorder techniques, live electronics and field recordings, and has received composition and performance commissions from Making Tracks and the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music. As an educator, Juliana is an experienced teacher and workshop leader. She teaches recorder at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Music Academy, where she also directs the SMA recorder ensemble. She has a particular interest in the psychology of music education and holds a Master’s degree with Distinction in Music Psychology from the University of Sheffield. Alongside her institutional teaching, she leads creative, inclusive workshops in composition and film scoring, improvisation, and electronic music for organisations including Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Yorkshire Sound Women’s Network.