Julia Brown was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1965. After graduating from Unicamp State University of Campinas in piano, she received a scholarship from the Brazilian Government to study organ at Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois. She received her master’s degree and doctorate in the class of Wolfgang Rübsam.

Back in Brazil between 1996 and 1999, she was president of the ABO - Brazilian Association of Organists - and helped organize the Fifth Convention of Latin American Organists, the Third Festival of Sacred Music in São Paulo, and began a concert series on the historical Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Campinas Cathedral. She has appeared in concert in North and South America and in Europe. She has performed for the Oregon Bach Festival, the American Guild of Organists Regional Convention in Eugene, Latin American Organist Conventions, the International Organ Festival in Uruguay and the International Festival in Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

Her interest in historical performance practice has led her to participate in many master-classes including those in Haarlem, Alkmaar, Pistoia and Romainmotier. She currently serves as organist at the First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon.