Julie Giroux

Julie Ann Giroux is an American pianist and composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and numerous concert band works.

Biography

Giroux was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. She graduated from Ouachita Parish High School, in Monroe, Louisiana, and earned a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During her college years, Giroux composed several concert band works which were published by Southern Music Company. Immediately after graduation she traveled to Los Angeles, California, and began orchestrating under the employ of American composer Bill Conti for the Television Mini Series North and South. While in Los Angeles Giroux studied with several composers and orchestrators including Bill Conti, Jack Eskew and Greg McRitchie.
From 1985 to 1997, Julie Giroux orchestrated for television and films including April Fool's Day, Dynasty, North and South, North and South Book II, The Karate Kid Part II, Broadcast News, Masters of the Universe, White Men Can't Jump, and Blaze.
In 1997, Giroux began to compose heavily for concert bands and orchestras publishing exclusively with Musica Propria. In 2004 Gia Publications, Inc. published the book entitled "Composers on Composing for Band, Volume Two" which features a chapter written by Julie Giroux. Her insightful chapter gives a down to earth description which is often humorous of her personal methods and techniques for composing for bands.
In 2009, Giroux, an accomplished pianist, performed her latest work Cordoba for Solo Piano and Concert Band in five U.S. cities and attended the premiere of Arcus IX, a work for Solo F Tuba and Concert Band at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas.
Her 2009 Film and documentary orchestrations and compositions include the ongoing project "Call for Green China" which primarily funded by World Bank was recorded, performed and broadcast live in China in 2007. In 2009 the project was extended with new musical material, recorded and set to tour seven cities in China where the show will be performed live.
Giroux's Symphony No. V "Elements" by the Eastern Wind Symphony, featuring Conductor Todd Nichols premiered on June 9, 2018. Her trumpet concerto commissioned by Conductor Ray Cramer, The Musashino Academia Musicae and principal trumpet Christopher Martin (trumpeter) of the New York Philharmonic premiered by the commissioners at The Midwest Clinic in December 2018.
An advocate of gun control and mental health awareness, Mrs. Giroux composed the work My Soul to Keep as a way to fight violence with music. In addition to its poignant lyrics and music, Giroux has made the work "Free, for everybody, forever". She has created several different settings, from a cappella SATB choir to symphonic band with choir. Orchestral and vocal arrangements will also be added. The premiere took place in Orlando, Florida, the place of the second largest mass shooting in the U.S., with the Pride Bands Alliance Symphonic Band on October 13, 2019. The next large concert will be in Las Vegas, Nevada in October 2020, the site of the largest mass shooting in American history.
Giroux is a Member of American Bandmasters Association and an honorary brother of the Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at West Virginia University. She was initiated into the fraternity on April 2, 2005, and in December, 2017 she was awarded the Distinguished Service to Music Medal.
Julie Giroux currently resides in Madison, Mississippi and continues to compose, orchestrate and arrange for television, movies, video games, wind bands and orchestras.

Published compositions

Giroux's concert works are published by Musica Propria and Southern Music Company. Most have been recorded by Mark Custom Recordings,
Fontec, Klavier, and Naxos.
Numerous United States Military Band recordings include her works. Those compact discs can be obtained by contacting the appropriate military band or purchased through various labels. All of the Concert Band/Wind Ensemble listed works are Published and most can be listened to at Giroux's official website.

Orchestra

Fort McHenry Suite

# The Rockets Red Glare
# Dimly Seen Through the Mists of the Deep
# Freemen Shall StandArcus IXLa Mezquita de CordobaMoorish Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in Four Movements

Concert band and wind ensemble

A Time to DanceAll Good ThingsAlwaysAmaranthineArcus IX Autumn Rose Before the Sun Beyond the Gates Boston Liberties Carnaval! Celestial Seas Chorale for Wind Band & Melodic Percussion Circus FranticusCordoba 2009Crown of ThornsDragon Sky Dream DancerEmpireFantasie in FrenchField of Dreams Fort McHenry SuiteFreedom RisingGlenbury GroveGlorious LightGrace in Being Hands of MercyHardDrive Husaria Cavalry OvertureHymn for the Innocent Il BurloneI'll Be Home A'fore YeImbizoImpressions In My Father's Eyes Italian Rhapsody J Journey Through OrionJust Flyin' K2 KalanuKHAN La Mezquita de Cordoba LegacyLet Your Spirit SingLouisiana Parish SketchesMambo Perro LocoMarch of the Sun Dried TomatoesMedalist Fanfare & Celebration Mile High Movin' On Down the LineMystery on Mena Mountain No Man's Land Nothing That IsOf Blood & Stone: The Pyramids of Giza One Life Beautiful OPA! OuachitaOur Cast Aways Outcasts Outlander Overture in Five FlatPaprikash PoseidonPrimality!Prisoner of the Ring Riften Wed Shadow Falls Shine Space SymphonyStrathcona SuiteSwashbucklerThe Ash Grove The Bonsai Tree The Hearthstone The Grace in Being The Greatest GenerationThe Nature of the BeastThe NecromancerThe Speed of Heat Three FanfaresTiger Tail MarchTo Walk With WingsTrilliumTwelve Gallon Hat Under the Willow Vigils KeepVortex Wagon TrailWest Wind OvertureWhat Goes in the NightWhen Country Comes to Town

''Where the Red Fern Grows ''

Symphonies for concert band and wind ensemble

Symphony No. I Culloden
# Heilan Lochs, Bairns & Heather
# I Hae Grat for Tho' I Kend
# We Toomed Our Stoops for the Gaudy Sodgers
Symphony No. II No Finer Calling
# Integrity March
# Far From Home
# Honor Above All
Symphony No. III A Symphony of Fables
# The Lion and the Mouse
# The Pied Piper of Hamelin
# The Tortoise and the Hare
# The Ugly Duckling
# The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Symphony No. IV Bookmarks from Japan
# Mount Fuji - "Fuji-san"
# Nihonbashi - "Market Bridge"
# The Great Wave off Kanagawa - "The Life of One Wave"
# Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa - "Thunder Gate"
# Evening Snow at Kambara - "Light is the Touch"
# Hakone - "Drifting"
Symphony No. V ELEMENTS -
# Sun
# Rain
# Wind
Symphony No. VI The Blue Marble -
# The Blue Marble
# Voices in Green
# Let There be Life
Symphony No. VII TITAN -
# Sunrise on CoRoT-7b — Lava Planet
# Where Stars Are Born
# Lord of a Thousand Rings — Super Saturn, Star J1407b
# Departure — A Final Farewell Thee Well to Earth
# Sleeping Dragon — Rumiko & Junichi
# Kraken Mare — ''Sailing the Seas of Titan''

Arrangements

In The Bleak MidwinterSilent Night in GothamA Stocking Full of ComposersChristmas with MozartO Holy Night Nearer My God to TheeChristmas & Sousa Forever!Peter PatapanThe Little Bolero BoyHark! Those Jingle Bells are Smokin'Merrily on HighAll Through the NightThe First NoelThe 12 Days of ChristmasWhat Child is Ringing those Bells?I Got Rhythm, for ChristmasJingle them BellsThree Wise GuysAway in the MangerChristmas ToonsOne Torch, Two Women, Three Ships and Men RejoicingThe Blue Danube Christmas WaltzI'll Be Home for Christmas A Very Merry Heart & SoulNutcracker FantasiaConcerto in F Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, "L'inverno" 1st Movement - Vivaldi

''Drummer Boy Charlie''

Recordings

; The Music of Julie Giroux
; Julie Giroux Presents "Concert Band Christmas Gone Crazy"
; Jingle them Bells - Christmas Favorites Re-imagined by Julie Giroux
; A Few Notes Between Friends - The Music of Julie Giroux
; SHINE - Julie Giroux
; ELEMENTS - Julie Giroux - The Eastern Wind Symphony