Features

Feature 1

Keeping the Beat in Cuban Classrooms

Feature 2

Dr. Julie Hill and Stacie Freeman, GCAC Co-Founders, 2024 Sterling Award Winners

Feature 3

Yamaha Educator Feature: Percussionist Julie Hill Brings the World Home

Biography

Dr. Julie Hill is the Co-President, CEO, and Founder of Global Citizen Adventure Corps, a non-profit whose mission is to facilitate global service-learning with a focus on access for rural students from the Mid-South.  Julie has 30 years of experience as a music educator, scholar, performer, lecturer, administrator, and non-profit arts leader/advocate. Previously, she served as Chair of the University of Tennessee at Martin’s Department of Music where she was also a Professor of Percussion since 2005.

As a scholar/performer, Julie has presented hundreds of workshops, concerts, and lectures championing opportunities for social mobility through music, specifically for black women and underserved children in Northeastern Brazil. As a member of the award winning Caixa Trio, Julie has performed in Peru, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, France, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Taiwan, and throughout the United States.  She is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese and functional in Spanish.

Julie is the inaugural recipient of the University of Tennessee President’s system-wide Educate Award, a winner of the University of Tennessee at Martin's Cunningham Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Award and the Hardy Graham Distinguished Professorship Award, and the UT Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award.  Julie holds Member Laureate distinction from the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity, was the 2023 recipient of the international Percussive Arts Society’s Outstanding Service Award, and is a 2024 Sterling Award Recipient. 

Julie is the principal percussionist with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra. She also serves as the Co-Editorial Director for Percussive Notes, the scholarly journal of the International Percussive Arts Society of which she serves as a Past-President. Julie is the co-author of an audition method book entitled All Inclusive Etudes (Row-Loff Productions) and a collection of solos/duets entitled Music for Multi Percussion: A World View (Alfred Publications).  Julie has numerous percussion ensemble publications with Innovative Percussion and Row-Loff Productions. Her scholarly research has been published in Percussive Notes and the Garland World Music Encyclopedias.

Julie holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin. 

Julie Hill is an Artist and Educator for Zildjian Cymbals, and a Performing Artist for Yamaha Corporation of America. She is an artist and endorsee for Innovative Percussion, REMO, and Grover Pro Percussion. For more information, visit Julie Hill’s website at www.juliehilleducator.com 

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