I am Julia Vilar, a classically trained yet multidisciplinary artist. As an opera singer, composer, pianist, actress, visual artist, and aspiring writer, I have forged a many-hued path that is both rigorous and deeply sensitive. As passionate as organised, I put my awareness, rigour, interpersonal skills, artistry, and expressiveness to the service of each project or role I undertake, with originality and excellence. Since my earliest years, art has been more than a choice: it is a necessity. A way of living, feeling, connecting, and manifesting my inner universe into the world. My journey as a lyrical and multidisciplinary artist has allowed me to become an empathic, creative, and perfectionist individual, able to adapt to any professional environment and to find solutions that are both humane and effective. It has likewise taught me to transform emotion into expression, silence into music, human vulnerabilities into creative power. Every musical piece I perform, every scene I embody, every composition I shape, every word I write — I do so with the conviction that art can uplift, heal, and connect. As I often say when speaking of my relationship with music and the arts: “In its essence of timeless nature, only Music holds the power to summon, in the depths of the soul, the infinite spirit of Existence and, thus, sing forever within the fugacious Echoes of Eternity.” Background: I started my musical studies at 15, through piano lessons with Siumara Magnani, in the school of music Musikalina. I'm graduated in musical composition by the university FIAM-FAAM|FMU, where I was awarded with an Academic Honors Award for best performance and most promising music student. I studied classical singing at EMMSP (Municipal Conservatory of Music of São Paulo) in the class of the soprano Edna D'Oliveira. My current singing teacher is the French soprano Norah Amsellem. Besides my vast experience working as lyrical singer (soloist and choir) in several events, as a composer, as vocal coach, sound designer, and translator, I've been participating in workshops, masterclasses, festivals and courses in operatic performance, as well as soundtrack and music for cinema, alongside names such as Norah Amsellem, Kevin Short, Julien Benichou, Cristóvão Luis, Edineia Oliveira, Laura de Souza, Naomi Munakata, Gabriel Rhein, Douglas Hahn, Sérgio Wernec, Sidney Molina, Marisa Ramires, Roberto Saltini, and Rodrigo Vitta. Currently I study singing with the French soprano Norah Amsellem, and work professionally as a self-employed lyrical singer, composer, arranger, and music teacher.

Julia Vilar

I am Julia Vilar, a classically trained yet multidisciplinary artist. As an opera singer, composer, pianist, actress, visual artist, and aspiring writer, I have forged a many-hued path that is both rigorous and deeply sensitive. As passionate as organised, I put my awareness, rigour, interpersonal skills, artistry, and expressiveness to the service of each project or role I undertake, with originality and excellence. Since my earliest years, art has been more than a choice: it is a necessity. A way of living, feeling, connecting, and manifesting my inner universe into the world. My journey as a lyrical and multidisciplinary artist has allowed me to become an empathic, creative, and perfectionist individual, able to adapt to any professional environment and to find solutions that are both humane and effective. It has likewise taught me to transform emotion into expression, silence into music, human vulnerabilities into creative power. Every musical piece I perform, every scene I embody, every composition I shape, every word I write — I do so with the conviction that art can uplift, heal, and connect. As I often say when speaking of my relationship with music and the arts: “In its essence of timeless nature, only Music holds the power to summon, in the depths of the soul, the infinite spirit of Existence and, thus, sing forever within the fugacious Echoes of Eternity.” Background: I started my musical studies at 15, through piano lessons with Siumara Magnani, in the school of music Musikalina. I'm graduated in musical composition by the university FIAM-FAAM|FMU, where I was awarded with an Academic Honors Award for best performance and most promising music student. I studied classical singing at EMMSP (Municipal Conservatory of Music of São Paulo) in the class of the soprano Edna D'Oliveira. My current singing teacher is the French soprano Norah Amsellem. Besides my vast experience working as lyrical singer (soloist and choir) in several events, as a composer, as vocal coach, sound designer, and translator, I've been participating in workshops, masterclasses, festivals and courses in operatic performance, as well as soundtrack and music for cinema, alongside names such as Norah Amsellem, Kevin Short, Julien Benichou, Cristóvão Luis, Edineia Oliveira, Laura de Souza, Naomi Munakata, Gabriel Rhein, Douglas Hahn, Sérgio Wernec, Sidney Molina, Marisa Ramires, Roberto Saltini, and Rodrigo Vitta. Currently I study singing with the French soprano Norah Amsellem, and work professionally as a self-employed lyrical singer, composer, arranger, and music teacher.

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I am Julia Vilar, a classically trained yet multidisciplinary artist. As an opera singer, composer, pianist, actress, visual artist, and aspiring writer, I have forged a many-hued path that is both rigorous and deeply sensitive. As passionate as organised, I put my awareness, rigour, interpersonal skills, artistry, and expressiveness to the service of each project or role I undertake, with originality and excellence.

Since my earliest years, art has been more than a choice: it is a necessity. A way of living, feeling, connecting, and manifesting my inner universe into the world. My journey as a lyrical and multidisciplinary artist has allowed me to become an empathic, creative, and perfectionist individual, able to adapt to any professional environment and to find solutions that are both humane and effective. It has likewise taught me to transform emotion into expression, silence into music, human vulnerabilities into creative power.

Every musical piece I perform, every scene I embody, every composition I shape, every word I write — I do so with the conviction that art can uplift, heal, and connect.

As I often say when speaking of my relationship with music and the arts: “In its essence of timeless nature, only Music holds the power to summon, in the depths of the soul, the infinite spirit of Existence and, thus, sing forever within the fugacious Echoes of Eternity.”

Background:
I started my musical studies at 15, through piano lessons with Siumara Magnani, in the school of music Musikalina. I’m graduated in musical composition by the university FIAM-FAAM|FMU, where I was awarded with an Academic Honors Award for best performance and most promising music student. I studied classical singing at EMMSP (Municipal Conservatory of Music of São Paulo) in the class of the soprano Edna D’Oliveira. My current singing teacher is the French soprano Norah Amsellem.

Besides my vast experience working as lyrical singer (soloist and choir) in several events, as a composer, as vocal coach, sound designer, and translator, I’ve been participating in workshops, masterclasses, festivals and courses in operatic performance, as well as soundtrack and music for cinema, alongside names such as Norah Amsellem, Kevin Short, Julien Benichou, Cristóvão Luis, Edineia Oliveira, Laura de Souza, Naomi Munakata, Gabriel Rhein, Douglas Hahn, Sérgio Wernec, Sidney Molina, Marisa Ramires, Roberto Saltini, and Rodrigo Vitta. Currently I study singing with the French soprano Norah Amsellem, and work professionally as a self-employed lyrical singer, composer, arranger, and music teacher.

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Language

Portuguese
Fluent
English
Fluent
French
Intermediate
Spanish; Castilian
Beginner

Work Experience

Translator at Freelance
February 1, 2021 - November 30, 2022
Translator specialized in translation of artistic and professional texts
Composer at Concert Band of the Portuguese Army
April 1, 2024 - November 30, 2024
Composer for concerts
Singer at OFISA ( Philharmonic Orchestra of Santo Amaro)
September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022
Singer
Singer, composer, sound designer, and music teacher at Freelance
January 1, 2016 - Present
Singer, composer, sound designer, and music teacher (Freelance)
Singer at EMMSP and Grupo Hespérides das Américas
December 1, 2015 - November 30, 2018
Singer
Music teacher at Fermúsica
August 1, 2023 - July 31, 2025
Musical theory and singing teacher
Piano teacher at Colégio Nossa Senhora da Bonança
August 1, 2023 - July 31, 2025
Piano teacher
Music teacher at Musikalina
January 1, 2020 - January 31, 2022
Musical theory and singing teacher.

Education

Classical piano course at Musikalina Music School
August 1, 2012 - October 1, 2014
Musical Composition at FAAM (University of Arts Alcântara Machado)
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2017
Lyrical/Classical Singing at EMMSP (Music Conservatoire of São Paulo)
August 1, 2015 - June 30, 2018
Singing and Dramatic Arts at Cévennes Lyriques Opera Masterclass
August 1, 2024 - January 18, 2026
Opera Masterclass in France

Qualifications

Academic Honours Award
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2017
University diploma earned with honours for having the Best Performance and Realization in the courses of music of FAAM - FMU.

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services, Other
    paper Virgin Heart, chapter 1: The Lonely Poet's Dream - from the series "Epic Score Quest"

    As the first step on a long orchestral journey I’ve been longing to share with you, a series I’m calling Epic Score Quest 🎵, I hereby release the first episode: the opening chapter (“The Lonely Poet’s Dream”) of my original song Virgin Heart ❤️‍🔥. The song itself is an orchestral version, part of another personal project called Waves of Sorrow.

    How does this fractal of music make you feel? What is the story it evokes in the depths of your mind? What emotions does it stir within your heart and soul? What is it you wish for the next chapter to unveil in this instrumental tale? Let me know in the comments! 😉

    paper Julia Vilar sings "Suicidio!" from Ponchielli's La Gioconda

    Aria: “Suicidio!”. Opera: La Gioconda. Composer: A. Ponchielli.

    Julia Vilar in rehearsal with the pianist Anastaasia Silantieva. Nice, France. July 2025.

    uniE621 Pilgrim of the Eternal Morrow
    What is the worth of a single grain of sand in the hourglass of wind that even Time itself has forgotten? An hourglass inverted, surrounded by the golden sand of a remote desert, from which exiled grains have been locked outside? How did that one grain – so strange, so dissonant from the others – manage to find the secret entrance to the tomb of immortal time? Destiny, perhaps? A fate chosen or written? A blessing or a curse? Why, surely it was precisely because it was different. Yes, the tiny grain of sand had earned its eternal place within the artifact – but at what cost? What matters how Time will remember it, if its long journey is forgotten, its arduous path untold? What matters where it arrived, if history buries the storms it survived, the wars it fought, alone and wounded? For the despair and anguish of knowing that its love for the echoes of the past is precisely what suppresses its own sound, is infinitely more painful and unbearable than the torture of living blind, lying alongside the other grains of sand. Lying about the role they were fated to play. Lying about the character they were meant to become in that desolate desert, ignorant of the treasure dwelling in the present. For it is better to live in a lonely truth that delivers than within the performed illusion of the many. That is why a choice emerged and a decision took form in the heart of that isolated grain of sand: it were to embark on a long, solitary, and irreversible journey toward the lost horizon of itself – even accompanied by the self-inflicted fear of what it might find along the way and at its end. Carried from soft breeze to wild wind, from torrential tempests to dire droughts, the fragile grain ventured through placid valleys and majestic mountains. Through resplendent palaces and shadowed ruins. Enchanted forests and haunted swamps. Impossible places that sharpen inner senses and feed the imagination. It sought the core of that inner underworld, going as far as the wind could carry it – far enough from the echoes that had forged it. Echoes of ancestral voices that sang dirges and hymns of sorrow to drown out the little one’s own voice. Fiery voices pealing in the hollow that it thought to have been left behind, yet felt growing deep within like roots of an ancient oak. An absence it journeyed endlessly to fill, only to cascade back into it. And so it dove deeper and deeper into the bottomless primal lake. Ever farther from the desert where it had been born. Ever closer to the legendary hourglass that had once tempted it. *...to be continued...* Read the full text here: https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper Sonho Eterno (Eternal Dream) - study n. 2 - for solo piano - original composition by Julia Vilar

    This is the 2nd version of my first composition ever, Eternal Dream (english translation of the original title in portuguese Sonho Eterno ) - with only a few adjustments compared to the first version. Written for piano solo when I was still about 16 years. I dedicated this song to my first piano teacher, Siumara Magnani, and also it is intended as an expression of the Eternal Dream of life that burns deep in my heart in the form of Music!

    paper Masaccio - original song composed and performed by Julia Vilar

    Opus 1, nº 1 (popular name: Masaccio). Original song, text and arrangement by Julia Vilar. Language: Portuguese.

    Performed in 3 October, 2021. Soprano: Julia Vilar. Conductor: Silvia Luisada. Chamber orchestra: OFISA Women (a project of the orchestra OFISA).

    This is an original song, fully composed, written (including text/lyrics) and arranged by myself, Julia Vilar. I wrote the song some years ago, back when I was still a composition student, originally for voice and piano (later I arranged it for the chamber formation of the OFISA Women). Both song and text (written in Portuguese, my native language) are inspired by the the Renaissance fresco called “The Holy Trinity”, by the Italian painter Tommaso Giovanni di Simone (who became known as Masaccio), a very important artist in all history of Arts. This particular fresco in located in the church of Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. My composition is, therefore, a tribute to the painter and his legacy, among other things.
    Below the representation of the Trinity with the Virgin Mary and Saint John, there is the painting of a tomb, with a human skeleton and a saying written right above that can be translated as: “What are you, once I was; what am I, you will come to be”. The painting and this message got me constantly meditating on the human condition and the anguish of existence. So the essential message I “heard” through this arts masterwork and tried to represent musically, with all the levels and depth painted, was about the circle of life and, far deeper and more importantly, what makes our existence meaningful. This is, the human anguish and our search for transcending our very condition, for I believe all of us seek, one way or another, to find Eternity in the ephemeral moments in time, to give a sense of purpose to life and meaning to death.

    uniE621 The Hand of Fate
    Concept art draft for a personal project. illustrator designer drawing conceptart
    uniE621 Greek Lady
    Greek aesthetics inspired color pencil drawing meant for study. illustrator designer artist conceptart
    uniE621 Halloween Invitation
    Gothic concept for a halloween party invitation commissioned in 2013. illustrator designer halloween conceptart
    uniE621 Stage Costume Concept
    A costume concept for stage performance commissioned in 2014. designer drawing conceptart costume pencil