Julia Hülsmann
Julia Hülsmann was born in Bonn in 1968. She took classical piano lessons from the age of eleven and started her first band at 16. In 1991, she moved to Berlin to study jazz piano at the University of the Arts (HdK) and the following year joined the German Youth Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO). Since 1997, Hülsmann has worked with her own trio, playing at clubs and festivals all over Germany.
Julia Hülsmann’s ECM debut The End of a Summer came in 2008, with regular partners Marc Muellbauer (bass) and Heinrich Köbberling (drums), followed by Imprint, in 2011. In 2012, the trio became a quartet with the addition of English trumpet and flugelhorn player Tom Arthurs, a line-up which released In Full View, in 2013. Arthurs brought a strong new frontline voice that not only inspired Julia Hülsmann as player and arranger, but also had a stimulating [...]
Julia Hülsmann was born in Bonn in 1968. She took classical piano lessons from the age of eleven and started her first band at 16. In 1991, she moved to Berlin to study jazz piano at the University of the Arts (HdK) and the following year joined the German Youth Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO). Since 1997, Hülsmann has worked with her own trio, playing at clubs and festivals all over Germany.
Julia Hülsmann’s ECM debut The End of a Summer came in 2008, with regular partners Marc Muellbauer (bass) and Heinrich Köbberling (drums), followed by Imprint, in 2011. In 2012, the trio became a quartet with the addition of English trumpet and flugelhorn player Tom Arthurs, a line-up which released In Full View, in 2013. Arthurs brought a strong new frontline voice that not only inspired Julia Hülsmann as player and arranger, but also had a stimulating effect on the composing activities within the quartet.
Singer Theo Bleckmann added his considerable vocal gifts to the quartet on A Clear Midnight: Kurt Weill and America (2015), an imaginative response to the composer’s songs that had its origins in the 2013 Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau. John Fordham wrote in the Guardian: “This might just be one of the great jazz treatments of the songs of Kurt Weill […] Not a sound is out of place on this beautifully crafted project.”
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| YEAR | DATE | Artist | VENUE | LOCATION | |
| 2026 | September 13 |
Julia Hülsmann Octet
"While I Was Away" |
ZigZag | Berlin, Germany | Event |
| 2026 | October 03 |
Julia Hülsmann Octet
"While I Was Away" |
ehemalige Kettenfabrik | Saarbrücken, Germany | |
| 2026 | November 20 |
Julia Hülsmann Quartet
w/Julia Hülsmann/ Uli Kempendorff/Marc Muellbauer/ Heinrich Köbberling and Hildegunn Øiseth "Under The Surface" |
Jazzforum | Bergen, Norway | Event |
| 2026 | November 22 |
Julia Hülsmann Quartet
w/Julia Hülsmann/ Uli Kempendorff/Marc Muellbauer/ Heinrich Köbberling and Hildegunn Øiseth "Under The Surface" |
Jazz-Piano Festival | Kalisz, Poland | |
| 2027 | January 15 |
Julia Hülsmann Quartet
w/Julia Hülsmann/ Uli Kempendorff/Marc Muellbauer/ Heinrich Köbberling and Hildegunn Øiseth "Under The Surface" |
tba | Neustrelitz, Germany |