Julie Tompkins is an active concert performer, teacher, and music administrator from the San Francisco Bay area who has made her home in the Geneva area since 1988 when she received a Rotary International Foundation Scholarship to work and study there. She began her piano studies at age four and commenced her professional solo career at age fourteen. Miss Tompkins has participated in international competitions in both Europe and the USA.

Miss Tompkins has performed throughout Europe and the USA with special performances for the American Ambassador in Bern, Switzerland and for the US Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.

Festival performances include the "Villars Open" Music Festival and, as the recipient of a grant from Concerts Atlantique, the European International Festival. Miss Tompkins has performed to standing-room-only crowds in Geneva, Villars, and Paris (twice) and has received standing ovations for her rendition of the Grieg Piano Concerto.

She began teaching at age fifteen and maintains a full pedagogical schedule, teaching, coaching and lecturing. Current functions include:

• Piano Professor at the International School of Geneva where she founded the La Chataigneraie Music School and International Concert Series.

• Director and founder of the Summer Music Program which combines Music, Art, Dance and Drama for students ages 4 – 16.

• Qualified I.G.C.S.E. examiner, I.B. tutor and active teacher in Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music examination program; she is active in the overall musical development of her students, many of whom have earned distinctions.

Miss Tompkins has produced 16 recordings under the Pianoforte Productions label and has been heard on radio broadcasts in both Europe and the USA.

Julie is married to Brandt Wagner and they have two children.

Master of Music in Piano
San Francisco Conservatory of Music 1983

Bachelor of Arts degrees in Music and English
University of California at Berkeley 1978

I.G.C.S.E. Examiner in Music, certified 1996

Etudes de Perfectionnement, Henri Gautier, Conservatoire de Genève, 1988-1989

Arts Week Festival
International School of Geneva
May 1994

Guest Lecturer
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
December 1991

Guest Lecturer/Demonstration
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
April 20,1989

Mack McCray Master Classes (participant), San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francsico, CA, 1981-1983

Charles Rosen, lecture series, UC Berkely, Berkeley, CA 1977

Anton Kuerti Master Class (Participant)
S.F. Conservatory of Music, San Francisco,CA
March 1983

Leon Fleischer Master Class (Attended)
S.F. Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA
March 1981

Ensemble Instrumental de Rolle
(Mozart Concerto)
Geneva/ Founex, Switzerland,
March/April 1996

International Concert Series
Founex (VD), Switzerland,
January 1993 - 1996

St. Martin-in-the-Fields
London, England, May 13, 1991/July 6,1993

St. James' Picadilly
London, England, July 9,1993

American Church Lunchtime Concert Series
Geneva, Switzerland
Fall 1992/Spring 1993

Emmanuel Concert Series
Geneva, Switzerland
Nov. 19,1989/Nov. 1992/April 1993

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A, April 15,1992

Contra Costa Chamber Symphony
(Grieg Concerto)
Walnut Creek, California, U.S.A.
April 4 & 8,1992

The American Cathedral of Paris
Paris, France, September 24, 1991

Institut de Ribaupierre
Lausanne, Switzerland
June 30,1989 & March 30,1990

Bosendorfer Hall
Vienna, Austria, September 1990

The International Red Cross Museum
Geneva, Switzerland, June 1, 1990

St. Martin's Ludgate Hill Concert Series
London, England
Jan. 31 & Aug. 28,1990, May 14,1991

U.S. Mission to the United Nations
Geneva, Switzerland, March 6, 1990

Gala Concert for the Rotary Club
Wetzikon (Zurich), Suisse, Dec. 12,1989

American Church in Paris
Paris, France, November 26,1989

The American Embassy
Bern, Switzerland, March 30/July 4,1989

Salle de la Colombiere
Nyon, Switzerland
December 8,1989

The "Villars Open" Music Festival
Villars, Switzerland
July/August 1989

St. James Church
Florence, Italy, June 10,1989

Auditorium de Palma
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 29,1989

Son Marroig
Deia, Mallorca, Spain, May 27, 1989

Julie Tompkins is a talented young pianist with a rare attribute: a genuine appreciation of, and enthusiasm for, the music of our own time. I have been most pleased - indeed impressed - with her performances of my Three Fragments for Piano, which she plays with wonderful clarity, expression and understanding."

Robert Strizich, composer

". . .well memorized, technically correct, effective in the "presto" and a very special vision in the part of the silences and spaces was repeatedly manifested in the Chopin "Scherzo" of which Julie Tompkins gave a personal and telling rendition. Equally the same occurred in the Beethoven Sonata..."

Biel Domingo
Ultima Hora, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

"... she played a warm and unusually poetic program. The op. 99 of R. Schumann set the stage for her introspective yet often impulsive interpretations, full of spirit and sudden insights.. . . the Mozart "Easy" C major Sonata - deceptively hard to put across - was well thought out, balanced and affecting. Mendelssohn and Schubert brought Tompkins back to her introspective mood, an attitude both warmed and enlightened by her attention to subtle dynamics and voicings.... Brahms' Four Ballades, op. 10 [were] austere at first, then youthfully idealistic and ardent..."

Charles Shere
Oakland Tribune, U.S.A.

"The audience welcomed with a salvo of applause the superb performance of Julie Tompkins, piano and Michel Bellavance, flute. These two young professors of the Kayaleh Music School proved without difficulty that their talents are on par with the importance of their titles....this duo gave their full measure in the "Sonata for Flute and Piano" by R. Muczynski... the fourth and last movement extremely virtuostic and lofty brought about an ovation. ... in the "Sechs KIeine Klavierstiicke" by Schonberg and "Three Fragments for Piano" by Robert Strizich...Julie Tompkins brought sensitivity and depth to these dry, unforgiving, futuristic scores."

Le Quotidien de La Cote
Ouest Lemanique, Switzerland