Julie Becker

Violinist and pedagogue, Julie Artzt Becker has performed throughout the United States and Europe as soloist with orchestra, recitalist, and chamber musician. At the age of eleven, she debuted with the Young Artists Philharmonic in Connecticut. Since then she has won many competitions including the Queens Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition, the Bergen Philharmonic Competition, and the Five Towns Music and Art Competition, and she has attended festivals in Aspen, Italy and Israel, where she took master classes with Pinchas Zukerman. She also participated in the Perlman Music Program in Shelter Island as an assistant to her teacher, Patinka Kopec. As an active chamber musician, Ms. Becker has performed a duo recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with violist Jeanne Mallow and the Mendelssohn Octet with Itzhak Perlman at Weill Recital Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.   

Ms. Becker co-founded and held first violin of the Motyl Chamber Ensemble which features music written and performed during the Holocaust. The Motyl Chamber Ensemble had a New York debut at Carnegie Hall and has performed at various institutions and events including the United Nations’ Holocaust Remembrance Observance.  

A dedicated teacher, Ms. Becker has produced many gifted violinists who have gone on to prestigious universities and conservatories and won national and international competitions. Ms. Becker has been a sought-after guest teacher at universities and she has filmed teaching videos on Howcast.com, some of which have received over a million views.  After attending the Juilliard Pre-College Division, Ms. Becker graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Music degree and the Manhattan School of Music with a Master of Music degree. 

Manhattan School of Music Precollege faculty since 1999.