Julia Selina Blank from Germany is an award-winning conductor based in Norway. During the course of the last years she has established herself as a sought-after musical leader in Europe.

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She is a frequently engaged as guest conductor and chorus master and has worked with ensembles  like the Bavarian Radio Chorus, the MDR Radio Chorus, the NDR Vocal Ensemble, Rias Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, Chorwerk Ruhr and the Norwegian Soloists Choir.

In season 2024/25 she is collaborating with the Netherlands Radio Chorus, WDR Radio Chorus, Coro RTVE in Madrid and Radio Choir Berlin.

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As co-founder and chief conductor of the JSB-Ensemble Oslo, she has created and lead projects combining early and baroque music with challenging contemporary pieces. The ensemble consists of some of Norway´s leading ensemble singers and often performs music with one voice per part.

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Blank has been conducting amateur choirs for more than 15 years. Currently, she directs the award-winning chamber choir Kammerkoret NOVA in Oslo. The choir will release a new a-cappella album in 2025.

She is also the conductor of the Norwegian National Youth Choir 2024-2025.

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Blank has been awarded second prize at the Eric Ericson Award 2021 and first prize both at the World Choral Conducting Competition in Hong Kong 2019 and the London International Choral Conducting Competition 2018.

She has studied choral conducting with Michael Gläser in Munich, Fredrik Malmberg in Stockholm and Grete Pedersen in Oslo. She supplemented her studies with several master classes led by conductors like Anders Eby, Stefan Parkman, Justin Doyle and Daniel Reuss.

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Several years as a singer in ambitious and professional choirs like the World Youth Choir, the Bavarian State Youth Choir and the Munich Philharmonic Choir contribute to her work as a choral conductor.