Born in 1996 in Maracay, Venezuela. Julimar Gonzalez began her violin studies at the age of 7 with Professor Heemath Jahoor at the world-renowned music program known as ‘El Sistema’. She was chosen to be part of the first violin section of the Jose Felix Ribas Youth Orchestra in 2006 and later in 2007 became a member of the National Children’s Orchestra of Venezuela conducted by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and Sir Simon Rattle. During that same year she joined the Latin American Academy of Violin where she studied under Maestro Jose Francisco Del Castillo until 2013.
She has appeared as a soloist in various cities around the country with conductors such as Pablo Castellanos, Carlos Riazuelo, Manuel López Gómez and Joshua Dos Santos including performances with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. She has performed overseas recitals in Barcelona, Spain at the Vesprades de Tardor Music Festival and she has spent her summers at Chautauqua Music Festival and Bowdoin Music Festival in the United States during consecutive years since 2014.
She has received lessons with famous violinists like Ilya Kaler, Ida Kavafian, Rachel Barton Pine, Albert Markov, Donald Weilerstein, Maurice Hasson, Michaela Martin, Kristoff Barati, Kathleen Winkler and others.
In 2019 Ms. Gonzalez won the Roosevelt University Concerto Competition that earned her a performance with the Chicago College of Performing Arts and she also won first prize in the Illinois American Strings Teachers Association Competition during the same year.
Since 2013 Ms. Gonzalez is a former student of Almita and Roland Vamos. She is currently enrolled at Roosevelt University where she is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Violin Performance and continues her studies with Almita and Roland Vamos.