"Julian Smedley is a true composer..." Julian Smedley is a true composer in the classical sense, but he is often referred to in metaphors that are not usually associated with music... sculptor, architect, painter. His music is subtle, complex and yet very clear and human. He has a way of giving respect to the intelligence of his listener and opening windows to the inner structure of his work.

Educated at Oxford, Smedley has a deep musical knowledge. His roots are evident in compositions and sound installations for museums around the world including; The National Museum in Taipei, The Museo Papalote in Mexico City, the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park and for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations.

But, there is a lighter side as well...

Visualize the elegant composer pictured above as a young rocker in England, with a huge recording contract, hit songs, tours, fans... on top of a crazy swing of retro music. It helps you to understand the wry humor lurking just under the surface.

Smedley began the serious phase of his career while touring with "Monty Python's" Eric Idle, Bonzo Dog's Viv Stanshall and Neil Innes. He is well known on many CDs and performances as a featured violinist with the Hot Club of San Francisco, Club Foot Orchestra, Kaila Flexer and Third Ear, with Beth Custer & Joe Goode Performance Group, and even a mercifully short tour in the Johnny Mathis Orchestra... don't even mention it.

Television audiences around the United States and Canada will find him on "The Bravo! Channel" as a composer and violinist in the Tony Papa film, "Inside Italy" with jazz legend Paul Horn and co-composer Christopher Hedge. This film documents a live, multi-media performance of the trio in a two hundred year old Opera House in Rieti, Italy. A memorable moment... Smedley accompanies his composition for String Quartet with projected images from "The Ludovica" by Bernini superimposed on the dome, the boxes, the historic architecture of the opera house. Beautiful.

Currently, Smedley is composing and engineering at The Magic Shop recording studio, a futuristic soundtrack studio in San Francisco as well as producing for numerous Bay Area artists. His work is intricate, electronic, acoustic, ancient, visionary, true... musical metaphors that can't be put into words.