For many years, she has been passionately active in the field of piano chamber music and contemporary music. She has performed, among others, with Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Łukasz Borowicz, Krzesimir Dębski, Jacek Kaspszyk, Aleksander Liebreich, and Marek Moś. She has also performed with Stanisław Kierier, Artur Pachlewski, Anna Radziejewska, Tomasz Strahl, Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział, and the Quarrel Quartet.
Works by contemporary Polish composers have a special place in her repertoire (such as Krzysztof Baculewski, Zbigniew Bagiński, Wojciech Blecharz, Krzesimir Dębski, Zofia Dowgiałło, Grzegorz Duchnowski, Krzysztof Knittel, Bartosz Kowalski-Banasewicz, Zygmunt Krauze, Sławomir Kupczak, Artur Zagajewski, Weronika Ratusińska, and Tomasz Sikorski), as well as Jewish (Haim Permont, Gideon Lewensohn, Josef Bardanashvilli), Palestinian (Habib Touma, Wisam Gibran) and Iranian composers (Farzad Goodarzi).
The artist has made many recordings for Polish Radio, Polish Television, DUX, Musica Sacra and the Polish Composers’ Union Archives. In 2010, she was invited by Polish Radio to record Stefan Kisielewski’s "Piano Concerto" with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jacek Kaspszyk. She also recorded all Krzysztof Baculewski’s chamber and solo piano works for DUX.
Julia Samojło worked as a chamber pianist in the violin classes of Krzysztof Jakowicz, Julia Jakimowicz-Jakowicz and Jakub Jakowicz at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She is currently a member of LoSa Duo with drummer Leszek Lorent, a duo with cellist Karolina Jaroszewska and a member of the board of the Association of Polish Chamber Musicians.
Paweł Gusnar’s album "Saxophone Varie", which begins with Maria Pokrzywińska’s "Invitation" performed by Gusnar and Samojło, received the 2014 Fryderyk Award in the Album of the Year Chamber Music category.
Artist’s website: http://www.juliasamojlo.com/
Originally written in Polish by Małgorzata Kosińska, Polish Music Information Centre, Polish Composers’ Union, November 2007; updated and translated by Marcin Gozdanek, December 2019.