Born in Kraków, Julia Malik completed her Master’s degree in cello performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, studying under the world-renowned cellist Professor Arto Noras; during this time, she was also a member of the Hamburger Symphoniker orchestra. She subsequently earned a Master’s degree in solo singing from the Academy of Music in Kraków, where she studied in the class of Professor Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha. She completed a postgraduate internship in the Lied class at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart under the guidance of Professors Cornelis Witthoefft and Teru Yoshihara, and was a scholarship recipient of the Norwegian Artistic Research program at the Grieg Academy (University of Bergen, Norway).
For her artistic work, Julia Malik has received numerous awards and scholarships, including those from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, the Mayor of Kraków, the Rector of the Academy of Music in Kraków, the Cusanuswerk (Bonn), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now, the Lions Club Nike (Warsaw), Morningside Music Bridge (Calgary), the Stuart Holland Memorial Canadian Scholarship, the Sapere Auso Foundation, and Rotary International.
As an opera soloist, she has performed roles such as Romilda (Serse), La Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Alcina (Orlando paladino), Elisetta (Il matrimonio segreto), Hanna (Straszny dwór), Liù (Turandot), and Flora (La traviata), as well as Angelina (La Cenerentola at the Hordaland Theatre in Bergen). As a performer of oratorio and art song, she has appeared at numerous festivals across Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Norway, Finland, Japan, and China. Notable appearances include the Klassik Online Festival (Bergedorfer Zeitung), Chopin Gesellschaft Hamburg, Internationale Festspillene Bergen, the Carloforte Music Festival, the Voice and Piano Chamber Music Festival in Kraków, the Internationaler Musiksommer Lenk, the Internationale Sommerkademie Prag-Wien-Budapest, the Hölderlin Tage (Akademie des gesprochenen Wortes, Stuttgart), the Neue Musik Festival für Neues Musiktheater (Stuttgart), and the Sibelius Festival (hosted by the Embassy of Finland in Warsaw). Her chamber music partners have included many distinguished pianists, such as Piotr Różański, Witold Wilczek, Hubert Rutkowski, Sijia Ma, Kamila Łopatka, Roland Hagemann, and Mariko Sakonju.
Between 2015 and 2019, she undertook a series of concert and opera tours, performing in 28 concert halls and venues within the Poly Grand Theatre network across China and Japan.
Last year, she participated in the world premiere of the musical drama Painted Skin – composed by Yu Xing for a large ensemble, soprano, and bass – at the Kraków Philharmonic. The work draws inspiration from Chinese opera and features a libretto based on Strange Tales by Pu Songling.
Julia Malik also serves as the Director for Asian Cooperation at the Polish Association of Chamber Musicians and as a music consultant for the Nordic Ice Theatre in Bergen. She is a former president of the board of Sunrise Bridge Music Production – a company dedicated to promoting European classical music in Asian countries – and currently holds the position of Tours & Projects Manager at TACT International Art Management.