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.”
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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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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! 😉
Aria: “Suicidio!”. Opera: La Gioconda. Composer: A. Ponchielli.
Julia Vilar in rehearsal with the pianist Anastaasia Silantieva. Nice, France. July 2025.
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!
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.
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