One of the featured concerts in the Meisterkonzert Series, Villa Sachsen, with jazz world music trio, “Colored Fish” with Julie and Gernot, and Pedro Eustache, Hollywood film studio soloist, a Venezuelan born multidirectional soloist flautist, reed player, world woodwind player, wind synthesis, researcher, composer, lecturer, and instrument maker with extensive academic studies and more than 40 years professional experience, including first call wind soloist, Hollywood film studios.

Germany 2020m Hildegardisschule, Bingen

Bingen Swingt, Jazz Art Niedersachsen, Poetry of Truth with jazz quintet and narration, supported by the State of Niedersachsen, Bingen Office of Culture, with poetry by Rilke, Morgenstern, Goethe, Max Frisch, set to music by Gernot and Julie and ensemble director and saxophonist, Ulli Orth, previously arranger and performer with the late German pop singer, Roger Cicero.

Julie is invited to record new compositions for marimba by Ben Wahlund, a grammy nominated, award-winning American composer, performer, and full time percussion instructor Northern Illinois University 

Mexico 2020, Invited to perform a concert and workshop for the International Festival of Marimba Players and Percussionists, Edition XIV, State of Tabasco, Mexico, State Theater Esperanza Iris,  Villahermosa, supported by the State Institute of Culture and the National Council of Culture and the Arts, Duo with Gernot Blume, premiering new music for marimba and mandolin, small ensemble, and marimba and rap.

2020 Commission for new work for 100 member Marimba Orchestra, with rapping and hip hop rhythms, produced by Frank Kumor, director of Kutztown University Mallet Research Center, to be conducted by Artistic Director and PAS Hall of Fame member, Gordon Stout.

It’s official!! I’m now in the German Archive for Women Composers! Thanks to these hard working people, many great composers, musicians, and conductors, past and present, are getting seen and heard in a field that is changing slowly, especially for composers and conductors, in which we are still most often mentioned with our title preceded by our gender!! My first Norsk scores into the archive are the two versions of „DJ Dog Demockracy“ for marimba trio with drums and bass, recorded and commissioned by the multi-stylistic Mika Stoltzman, available soon, and marimba solo or duo with drums, commissioned by the young lion, Ayami Okamura and Daniel DiSimone, premiered on their Japan tour. The large score in the middle is the percussion concerto, „ZALAN-ZALAN“ commissioned and premiered by Shanghai Symphony virtuoso, and all around great guy, Weichen Lin with the wonderful Taipei Youth Symphony coordinated by Louise Chang and supported by the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation, and conducted by the really fun Boston Symphony Orchestra Asst. Conductor, YuAn Chang. Some commissions are joint with my husband Gernot Blume, like“ZALAN-ZALAN“ with a co-composed final movement. The archive said they would make an exception for Gernot!! : ) Thank you Norsk Musikforlag for all the beautiful scores!!

Virtuoso Leo Le Yu has commissioned a new marimba solo by Spencer!