Julia Selina Blank, originally from Germany, is an award-winning conductor based in Norway. Over the past years, she has established herself as a sought-after musical leader throughout Europe.

 

She is frequently engaged as a guest conductor and chorus master, having collaborated with ensembles such as the Radio Choir Berlin, the Netherlands Radio Chorus, the Bavarian Radio Chorus, the MDR Radio Chorus, the WDR Radio Chorus, the NDR Vocal Ensemble, the RIAS Chamber Choir, the Swedish Radio Choir, the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, Coro RTVE in Madrid, Chorwerk Ruhr, and the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir. She served as conductor and artistic leader of the Norwegian National Youth Choir from 2024–2025.

 

As co-founder and chief conductor of the JSB-Ensemble Oslo, she has conceived and led projects that combine early and baroque repertoire with demanding contemporary works. The ensemble, made up of some of Norway’s leading ensemble singers, often performs one-on-a-part music.

 

Blank has conducted amateur choirs for many decades. She currently directs the award-winning chamber choir Kammerkoret NOVA in Oslo, which released the a cappella album Human/Nature in 2025, featuring romantic and contemporary music by female composers.

 

She is also active internationally as a pedagogue and workshop leader in choral conducting and is regularly invited to serve on competition panels and juries.

 

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

 

For many years, she was a member of the German Conductors’ Forum and has studied choral conducting with Michael Gläser in Munich, Fredrik Malmberg in Stockholm, and Grete Pedersen in Oslo.

 

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