An orchestral musician, chamber musician, soloist, and teacher, Julie Price has held positions as Principal Bassoon with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been Principal Bassoon of the English Chamber Orchestra since 1994 and Co-Principal, now Principal Bassoon, of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2001. In 2019 she was also appointed Principal Bassoon of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
With conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Ralf Gothóni, Andrew Litton, Edward Gardner, and Douglas Boyd she has appeared as a soloist at the Barbican, Cadogan Hall and Royal Festival Hall as well as many venues outside London and abroad. As a chamber musician she has appeared with such groups as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, the Nash, Gaudier, and Razumovsky ensembles, Conchord, London Winds, I Musicanti, Ensemble 360 and the Lindsay and Chilingirian string quartets, at venues throughout the UK and abroad.
She first studied the bassoon with Sonja Smith, then with Edward Warren and William Waterhouse whilst at the University of Manchester and Royal Northern College of Music, and later with Roger Birnstingl in Geneva.
Julie Price was a Professor at the Royal College of Music in London for 23 years, also giving master-classes there and at other institutions. She is now a Visiting Professor of Bassoon at the Royal Academy of Music.
Her discography includes recordings of Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto and Sinfonia concertante and Elgar’s Romance, all with the English Chamber Orchestra and Strauss’ Duett-Concertino with Michael Collins and the BBCSO.