Yulia (Julia) Potulova

Yulia (Julia) Potulova, a native of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, began her piano training at the age of eight where she studied at a Russian conservatory until her family immigrated to US. Since graduating with her masters from North Carolina School of the Arts in 2007, Ms. Potulova has remained an active musician and music teacher through out NYC. In 2007, Ms. Potulova received a teaching artist fellowship from the Lincoln Center Institute where she first discovered her love for NYC, teaching and working with children. It was in New York, where she explored her love for cultures and the unique artistic expression of different ethnicities, finding ways to incorporate them into her teaching and performances. Her singing and playing has been called "expressive, sensitive and nuanced" and her teaching "humorous, energetic and inspiring." Currently, Ms. Potulova works as an organist/choral director for North Yonkers Community Church, an accompanist for Jane McMahan's voice lessons at Barnard College, and a private piano teacher at Jubilee Center. She also holds the position of music and drama director for Jubilee's Summer Program, and is a teaching artist for CAE program working as a choral director at PS 5. Aside from her pianistic and teaching roles, Ms. Potulova is an active singer. From 2007-2011 Ms. Potulova sang and soloed in the RCCNY or Russian Chamber Chorus of New York where performances included both innovative, classical and folk music of eastern Europe. In the summer of 2011, Ms. Potulova performed in Grožnjan, Croatia where she was featured as a vocalist and pianist in her own concert of Gypsy music. In the past, Ms. Potulova attended the Brevard Summer Music Festival in NC, had numerous church organist jobs, sang with Schola Cantorum of NC, and performed in few musicals including the lead in Little Shop of Horrors. Artistic expression through music, movement, words, and art has been boiling in her blood since the time of birth, and she strives to continue to inspire and open up others to the infinite possibilities of self expression and the world of the arts.