Julia Severus began playing the piano at the age of four. She graduated from the Berlin University of Arts and from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied piano with Mikhail Voskresensky and Lev Naumov. Interested in questions of transversality of historic articulation practice, she wrote her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin on J.S. Bach’s Articulation Practice and Possibilities of Its Application in His Piano Works, with publications in Die Musikforschung and Concerto – Das Magazin für Alte Musik.

Wishing to explore piano ensemble repertoire, she founded the Aurora Duo and Quartet, performing numerous premières and world premières, among them Rodion Shchedrin’s Hommage à