Winner of the prestigious 2003 Virginia Parker Prize of the Canada Council for the Arts, a honorary prize to underline her innovative work as a performer.
Born in Montreal, Julie-Anne Derome studied with Christopher Rowland at the Royal Northern College of Music, UK (1991- 1995), and with Mitchell Stern and members of the Emerson String Quartet in the USA (1995-1996). Winner of the Mendelssohn Trust Award in England in 1994 and of the Emerson String Quartet Competition in 1995, Julie-Anne Derome also received a special prize from the jury at the 1992 Yehudi Menuhin Competition in Paris for her interpretation of Anthèmes by Pierre Boulez. Julie-Anne has performed as soloist with the Manchester Sinfonia at the Aix-en-Provence International Music Festival in France, and gave the world première of the revised version of the Berg Violin Concerto with the symphony orchestra of the Royal Northern College of Music (UK). In 1993 she took part in a concert of chamber music for Queen Elizabeth II in Cyprus during a meeting of the Heads of the Commonwealth. In 1995 she featured as the soloist in a performance of Corale by Luciano Berio with the SMCQ (Montreal). In 1996 she played with the Emerson String Quartet in Connecticut. In 1996 Julie-Anne released a CD of twentieth century solo violin works entitled Solo (on the Atma label). In reference to this recording the BBC Music Magazine hailed Julie-Anne Derome as "a star in the making." She may also be heard on Analekta and SNE labels.
Julie-Anne regularly premières concertos by Canadian composers. In 2000 the Canada Council for the Arts awarded Julie-Anne Derome the loan of a 1902 Enrico Rocca violin and in 2003 a 1820 Johannes Franciscus Pressenda violin.
In 1998 Julie-Anne founded the Trio Fibonacci. The group plays music for piano trio of all eras, being particularly recognised for its brilliant performances of contemporary repertoire. In nine years of existence the Trio Fibonacci has won international recognition for their interpretations of works by composers such as Pascal Dusapin, Michael Finnissy, Salvatore Sciarrino, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Charles Ives and Mauricio Kagel. They have also premiered works by a large number of Canadian composers. Their concert tours have led them to the Ars Musica, Ultraschall, Vlaanderen, Aldeburgh, Huddersfield and Strasbourg festivals, to Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Spain, China, Japan, to Berlin, Ex-Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Stockholm and New York. The critics have applauded their debut CD of the music of Jonathan Harvey, which was released in 2001.
Their second commercial CD, this time devoted to the music of French composer Denis Bosse, was released in March 2005 by Cyprès Label. Their latest disc, with NMC Recordings in England, features previously unrecorded works by James Clarke, Gerald Barry and Michael Finnissy.