Julie Parker studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music and trained as a teacher at Manchester Metropolitan University. She currently works as a music teacher in a number of schools in Irlam and Cadishead and also runs the Chorlton Kumon Centre.
Julie undertakes professional singing engagements and teaches singing privately at home. She is a member of the Association of British Choral Directors, and from 1994 to 2009 was the conductor of Manchester Girls’ Choir Junior Singers, and subsequently of Salford Youth Choir. She has conducted Urmston Choral Society since May 2009 and Irlam Male Voice Choir since March 2012. IMVC merged with another choir to become Irlam Mixed Voice Choir in September 2021.