Pianist Julia Hamos combines her American and Hungarian roots with an adventurous spirit to explore the essence of repertoire ranging from Bach to composers living today. Instinctive artistic expression, a forward-thinking attitude, a joyful physical flexibility at the instrument, and an unyielding fascination with the music she plays makes her an artist to watch.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London with Christopher Elton and the Mannes College of Music in New York with Richard Goode, Julia studied with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin and studied at the Kronberg Academy where her studies were generously supported by the Henle Foundation. In 2021 she worked with Daniel Barenboim in a series of filmed masterclasses on Beethoven solo piano and string sonatas. She also delved into György Kurtág’s 8 Pieces, Op. 3 together with the composer at the Budapest Music Center. 

          She is the winner of the Sterndale Bennett Prize for Romantic Music at the Royal Academy of Music and the Fidelman Prize for Contemporary Music from the Mannes School of Music in New York and won the Grand Prix of the International Virtuoso Competition in New York City.

           Julia is in international demand as a soloist and chamber musician. She performs at the Pierre-Boulez Saal, Berlin, the Wigmore Hall, London, as well as in New York at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Liszt Academy in Budapest and other concert halls in Europe and overseas. 

She has given recitals and chamber music performances at the Krzyzowa Festival in Kreisau, Poland as well as at the Trasimeno Music Festival in Italy, at the Prussia Cove Festival in Cornwall, as part of the Verbier Festival Academy, at the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina, at the Kneisel Hall Festival in Maine, at the Ravinia Steans Institute in Illinois, and at Kronberg’s Chamber Music Connects the World in collaboration with Tabea Zimmermann and Christian Tetzlaff. She also recorded with violinist Geneva Lewis for BBC Radio 3 this past fall.

           Passionate about exploring dynamics between student and teacher, from 2017-2019 she taught at the 92nd Street Y School of Music in New York. She also gains new insights from working closely with other art fields, resulting in collaborations with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the New English Ballet Theater and the New School's Drama Division.

         
At the invitation of Sir András Schiff, she appears in the Building Bridges series of concerts throughout Europe in the 2022/23 season. Notable recital appearances and solo include performances with the NOSPR in Katowice, Poland, at Wigmore Hall, Beethoven Haus Bonn, at the Magyar Zene Hàz in Budapest and the Luxembourg Philharmonie. She played the Ligeti Piano Concerto in Berlin’s Boulez Saal this season with the Boulez Ensemble and Matthias Pintscher and will perform next month chamber music with members of Kronberg Academy including Tabea Zimmermann in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. She recently completed a recording of the Mozart Concerti with Howard Griffiths and the Camerata Schweiz for Alpha Classics. Julia signed with record label naïve Records in 2024 to produce a series of solo recordings within the next five years. She is to debut at the Pierre Boulez Saal in 2025. Julia also currently serves as the assistant to the musicology program at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin.