Julie Huang

Julie Huang Tucker is a choral conductor and collaborative keyboard artist who serves as music director at First Presbyterian Church of Arlington, associate conductor of Washington Men’s Camerata, and conducting fellow of Choralis.  She has conducted at Yale’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras Workshop, and has worked with the Washington Douglass Chorale, Encore Chorale, and Arlington Chorale.  She has also performed as a concert organist with the National Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic, Choral Arts Society of Washington, and Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center, Strathmore Hall, and National Cathedral. 

Julie is passionate about teaching and traveling, which has led to educational collaborations including tango orchestra workshops in Mexico, township youth and prison inmate choirs in South Africa, and festival opera choruses in Italy.  She also shares her love of music as a fill-in host on WETA, Washington’s classical music radio station.  Julie holds a B.A. from Cornell University where she studied musicology, a M.M. in organ performance from the University of Oklahoma, and is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in choral conducting at the University of Maryland, where she works with the UMD Treble Chorus and Opera Chorus.