From very early on, Julie was passionate about singing. After school she would engage in her favourite pastime, playing various characters and singing in her garden. Her musical education also began when she was very young, as her parents introduced her to piano playing at the age of 5. At the age of 16, Julie began to listen to opera singers, she was impressed and attracted by the beauty of operatic art and from that moment onwards was determined to become an opera singer herself.
 

Soon she assiduously followed the technical and interpretative advice from her teacher Daniel Ottevaere at the Conservatory of Valenciennes – where she received a gold medal for the completion of her studies and a first prize in the category of advancement – as well as at the École Normale de Musique A. Cortot in Paris. She then kept perfecting her singing under the tutelage of Olga Toporkova.
 

From October 2015 to June 2017 Julie has been a member of the International Opera Academy of Gent directed by Guy Joosten, which enabled her to perform in various theaters across Belgium (Concert Hall of Ghent and Antwerp Opera, Alden Biesen castle, etc.) and to incarnate the roles of Eleonora from the opera Prima la musica e poi le parole by Salieri, and Euridice from the opera Orpheus by Teleman (Bozar in Brussels, Hetpaleis in Antwerp, CCHA in Hasselt, the Minard in Gent, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo). She also performed as a Zwaantje in the creation Zwanemans, a production held by Guy Joosten in the Vlaamse Opera house of Gent and the Hetpaleis of Antwerp.
 

From August 2017 to June 2021, Julie has been an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and took regular lessons with José van Dam and Sophie Koch. There she was offered the role of Pamina in the “Magic Flute” opera by Mozart with performances in Belgium and in the Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg and made her debut on the biggest Belgian stages.

 

Both Julie’s singing and acting talent have received acclaim: after being chosen by the radio Musiq’3 as the artist representing Belgium for the competition Young soloists of the french public medias, she won the prize of the public. At a younger age, she was awarded the second prize in the international Flame Competition in Paris and the first prize in the International Cobelli Lieder Competition in Brescia in Italy, where she was accompanied by her pianist partner, Pablo Matias Becerra.

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The Royal Opera of Wallonia hired Julie in 2018 for the interpretation of Cinderella, in an opera written by Pauline Viardot, and in 2019 for the interpretation of the role L'Amour in the Opera Orphee and Euridyce (Gluck/Berlioz). She will perform again in this last production in January, February and March 2024 in the Opera of Caen, Luxemburg and Versailles. 
 

Julie had the opportunity to perform in famous concert halls:
-In Flagey she sang Mozart arias with the Liège Royal Opera Orchestra directed by Giampaolo Misanti, The Requiem of Fauré with the orchestra Les Métamorphoses directed by Raphaël Feye, Die Schöpfung from Haydn with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra directed by David Navarro Tures
-In Bozar she interpreted the soprano solo part of Carmina Burana (Carf Orff) and in another concert Lobgesang from Mendelssohn with the Ensemble orchestral from Brussels and the Brussels Choral Society directed by Eric Delson / Jacques Vanherenthals
-In UNESCO’s Grand Auditorium in Paris, she performed the first part of a concert by the famous pianist Denis Matsuev
-In the Royal Festival Hall Stage in London, she sang the Composition for Mouths by Oliver Beer in a private event

-In the Cairo Opera House in Egypt, together with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra she interpreted a song composed by the Iraqi composer Qoutayba Neaimi for soprano

-In the Royal Theater of Mons and in the Max Festival she interpreted the soprano part of the Stabat Mater Pergolesi with the Royal chamber Orchestra of Wallonia

-Together with the baryton Thierry Vallier she went on a musical tour in 8 different belgian cities and interpreted the musical show Le Maître Chanteur written and directed by Cedric Monnoye
-And in many other Halls for different projects as the Boulez Saal in Berlin, Hofburg concert hall in Vienna; the Arsenic concert Hall, Grand Manège Concert hall of Namur and the Théâtre Royal du Parc in Belgium; the Appeldoorn Amphitheatre in the Netherlands ; and the Catamarca Amphitheatre in Argentina.
In 2017, the duo Julie Gebhart and Pablo Matias Becerra was selected to be part of the movie Brussels swings promoted by Flagey and realised by Marie-Jo Lafontaine.
 

She has also performed at numerous festivals. These include the festival Eté Mosan with a program dedicated to Enrique Granados; the Juillet Musical de Saint-Hubert and the festival Durbuyssimo where she sang opera duos with the mezzo-soprano Katarina van Droogenbroeck; The Choir's Night of Villers La Ville in duo with the soprano Astrid Stockman; the festival of Nancy, where she sang an exclusively German repertoire; the Cantus Formus where she interpreted the cycle of contemporary melodies of Jean Louis Mansart (Director of École Normale); the Festival of Vitré, where she sang in duo with the acclaimed Russian baritone Vladimir Chernov; the Coup Opera festival in the Netherlands ; Musicamparts in Egreville in France and the festival Les Minimes in Brussels where she performed Exsultate Jubilate of Mozart with orchestra under the conduct of Jacques Vanherenthals. She collaborates today with the composer Claude Ledoux and performs his music in different festivals as Musicorum, Midi Concerts of Liège etc...
 

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