Dr. Julia Clancy received her doctoral and Master's degrees from Yale University where she was twice awarded the Georgina Lucy Grosvenor Memorial Prize. She is a member of Pershing's Own Strings which frequently performs in the White House and throughout the capital region for the President, the White House Cabinet, U.S. Army officials, and foreign dignitaries. 

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Prior to her appointment to Pershing's Own, Julia played in the San Diego Symphony as Acting Section Violist. She performs frequently with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and has been a featured guest principal of the Great Falls Philharmonic. She has played in the sections of the Dallas Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and Nashville Symphony.

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While living in Berlin, Julia performed primarily with the Staatskapelle Berlin under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. She performed and recorded albums with Konzerthaus Berlin, Aldeburgh Strings, iPalpiti and the Boulez Ensemble. She became a member of the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble in 2019 and has toured Europe and South America several times with the orchestra.

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As a soloist, she has performed at 92Y, TheGreene Space, National Sawdust, LACMA and venues across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain. She has acted as principal violist in Krzysztof Penderecki’s festival orchestra, Britten-Pears Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia, Sarasota Festival Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, Moritzburg Festival Orchestra and Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Orchestra.

As an educator, Dr. Clancy has taught music theory, history, writing and viola performance at both the Cleveland Institute of Music and Yale School of Music. She is a former associate faculty member of the Encore Chamber Music Institute. She has served on the faculty of the Moabit Musikschule and The Academy of Fine Arts in Shreveport, LA. She is currently an education consultant for Ivy Labs Education.

Dr. Clancy's early musical education began at the Juilliard School where she studied with Heidi Castleman in the Pre-College program. She holds a degree in medical anthropology from Case Western Reserve University and a degree in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Jeffrey Irvine, Lynne Ramsey and Robert Vernon. Ms. Clancy received her master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University graduating with academic honors.