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Julie Comparini studied linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and Renaissance and Baroque music at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany. She has appeared in Jedermann at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, The Indian Queen at the Long Beach Opera, Il Pastor Fido and Le Balet Comique de la Royne at the Amherst Early Music Festival. She has staged music from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and The Tempest at the Festival of Flanders, Il Caffè d'Amore at Tage Alter Musik Regensburg and Peer Gynt (concertant) at the EXPO 2000. As a concert and ensemble singer she has performed at early music festivals in Göttingen, Halle, Utrecht, and Bremen, under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock and Gustav Leonhardt, and with ensembles X-POL and Weser-Renaissance. Her lectures and performances pieces based on pornographic seventeenth-century English music and poetry have been performed in Amherst, Boston, Nothampton, MA and New York City. She lives in Bremen, Germany.