A bit more about Julie
Julie Fiore is a creative director, strategist, marketer, producer, and communicator dedicated to exploring connection and community-building through storytelling.
She founded One Ounce Opera in 2012 after receiving degrees in Music Performance from the University of North Texas (BMus) and University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music (MM).
As a performer, her most celebrated operatic roles were Abigail in The Crucible, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, and Sister Constance in Dialogues of the Carmelites. Locally, Julie has performed with Conspirare, Chorus Austin, One Ounce Opera, and on various concerts and recitals with friends and colleagues.
For eleven years, she worked with children in the foster care system as a Music Mentor and volunteer program manager with Kids In a New Groove (KING, now part of Partnerships with Children), helping form the curiculum and train new mentors.
She also enjoyed five seasons as the Assistant Director and Program Manager of the Taos Opera Institute in New Mexico, an intensive summer young artist program.
She spent four seasons as Austin Opera's Director of Audience Experience, ushering in a period of innovation culminating in two OPERA America grants and a place in the Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator.
Most recently, she joined as Co-Director at Tetractys New Music where she is the Producing Director of the Here Be Monsters Indie-Classical Festival, now in its 3rd year. With OOO, she has championed 28 micro-operas to date and been nominated for over 20 theatre awards including four B. Iden Payne nominations for Outstanding Direction. She serves as the Executive & Artistic Director of OOO and the Creative Director for local firm Zanate Marketing.