Julia Ogrydziak is a violinist, composer, and multi-media visual artist based in San Francisco.

Julia began playing the violin at the age of 3 and made her solo debut at age 6. She has performed throughout Europe and North America, at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Tanglewood, and Lincoln Center. She studied at the SF Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, and in Paris. She has a Master’s in Design with Distinction from Harvard and Music and Physics degrees from MIT, receiving the AMITA award for most outstanding woman graduate.

A vocal proponent of modern music, Julia has collaborated with many of the foremost composers of our time. She performed Steve Reich’s Grammy-award winning “Different Trains,” winning the Naess award, and has worked closely with composers John Harbison and Evan Ziporyn. She has been involved in contemporary music as both artist and composer, at the Harvard Group for New Music and the “Hyperinstruments” group at the MIT Media Lab, including performances at Lincoln Center. Her recent projects include BELLA, collaborations with Capacitor Dance, and shows combining live performance and immersive visuals, such as Dark Blue Sky Dream which premiered at the Chabot Planetarium in Oakland.

Julia is also an award-winning artist, Creative Director, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Blacksquare, a digital media studio; she has received four Webby Awards and the Vera List Prize, and her work has garnered national media attention and been exhibited at MOMA. She now has a new startup: IMHO, a new model for media distribution online. She is a Board Member of WAM and Capacitor, Chapter Head of Harvardwood, and recently won the SF Conservatory Distinguished Prep Alumni Award.