About Julián

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Julián Muro is a musician and poet seeking a language that inhabits the intersection of both disciplines, drawing from both tradition and dissidence. Through this exploration, he interrogates the boundaries between musical genres and sketches a poetics that may dialogue with his life as a nomad and naturalist.

As a composer, singer, and guitarist, he was awarded the Raul Urtasun–Frances Harley Scholarship and the John W. Kieley Endowment to participate in the Banff Centre’s Musicians in Residence programs in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In 2024, he received the Lyseloth Scholarship for a residency at Musikerwohnhaus in Switzerland.

He holds a Performer-Composer Master of Music from The New School in New York, which was financed entirely by a Merit Award, and earned a Master of Music in Global Musics from Codarts University in Rotterdam in 2025.

Julián received the 2022 New Music USA Creator Development Fund Award and is currently finishing his third album, produced by acclaimed musician Dave Douglas. The album features Douglas as a guest artist, the Bergamot String Quartet, and a band of highly accomplished jazz players. Additionally, through grants from Amarte (NL) and SGAE (SP), he is working on his fourth album, which is entirely self-produced.

In 2021, he received an Award for Excellence in Climate, Environmental Justice, and Sustainability from the Tishman Environment and Design Center for his multimedia project La Tierra, una criatura, in which field recordings and poetry are used as a starting point for musical improvisation and creation: a creative process in which the Earth is the main collaborator.

During his stay in NY, Julián performed at Roulette Intermedium, as a part of Marisa Tornello’s SHATTER, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as part of Metropolis Ensemble’s Biophony alongside Shara Lunon, at around 20 shows with Sofar Sounds in NY and Washington DC, at Little Island’s Perform in the Park, and as a guest for the Bergamot String Quartet in several occasions. He was also selected for the International Contemporary Ensemble’s Ensemble Evolution program.

His stay in NY was possible thanks to the kind support of organizations such as MusiCares, Sweetrelief Musicians Fund, the University Student Senate, the Emergency Fund at the New School, the College Student Pantry, and FoodBankForNYC, among others.

In the year 2016, he released his first solo project as a producer, composer, arranger, and performer, by the name of Dingungu, a world-class band he formed with his long-time collaborator Pablo Méndez (musician of Dee-Dee Bridgewater, Tryo, Sapho, Minino Garay, among others), which highlights the African presence within Argentine traditional music and is available in all streaming services.

His 2020 album, Unterwegs, was recorded in Germany and features traditional songs from Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba, arranged in a personal way alongside original compositions.

In 2022, one of the tracks from his ongoing project La Tierra, una criatura was included in the ambient compilation Unyoked presents Lazydaze 001, a collaboration between the sound collective Lazydaze and Unyoked in Australia.

He was featured as a composer and performer in the interdisciplinary project Songs for Runaway Girls (2014, Argentina-Canada), recorded alto saxophones for Ariel Schlichter’s Vuelvo al Polvo EP (2017, Argentina), was a featured singer on Kenosha Kid’s record Missing Pieces (2019, USA), as a Spoken Word artist in Exilio Transitorio by Gabriel Viñuela-Pelletier aka viñu-vinu (2021, Canada).

In 2018, a selection of his poetry was published in the anthology Breve Tratado del Viento Sur in Colombia. That same year, while at the Banff Centre, Julián performed with renowned musicians Dave Douglas and Caroline Shaw.

Upon his return from Banff, Argentina was going through an economic, social, and political crisis that continues to this day, encouraging him to leave for Europe with 400 dollars in his pocket, without a plan, without any musical instruments, and without a family to receive him. He led an itinerant life ever since. Though it may have seemed unlikely at times, he managed to return to his artistic practice.

A naturalist, a traveler, and a contemporary troubadour, he has worked in the mountains of the Alps and the Andes as a porter and a hut keeper and has been a gardener since childhood.