AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Voted Best All-Around Musician, Northern Express Readers Choice, Traverse City, MI 2002, 2003 & 2005
Tractor featured on NPR's All Songs Considered, Episode #65, 2004
1st place Walnut Valley Festival 2001 & 2002 & 2003, New Song Showcase Instrumental
Placed in top 5 at the National Mandolin Championship, 2001 & 2002
Player Profile feature article in Mandolin Magazine 2002, Don Julin ~ Stories in Song
Interview Mandolin Quarterly 2001, Jazz Mandolin Part 2


TV, FILM & LIVE PRODUCTIONS

Original music placement: Real World Road Rules Challenge, MTV 2006
Original music placement: Beyond the Glory, Sugar Ray Leonard, Comcast/Fox Sports, 2005 2006
Original music placement: Sucre Sale, episodes 265, 266, 270 & 279, Canada 2006
Original music placement: Kathy Griffin Show, episode 3, Bravo 2006
Original music placement: A Cemetery Special, PBS/Super Station Turner Broadcasting 2006
Composed original music, Drive Time Essays,Vol. 2: The Best of InterConnections, UUA national release 2006
Received Michigan Arts grant to compose original score for production of Shakespeare's Tempest,
Old Town Playhouse, Traverse City MI 2004
Original music placement: Life 360, PBS/Super Station, Turner Broadcasting 2003
Original music placement: Dale Earnhardt Special, WTVC 2003
Various selections are often heard on NPR's radio magazine All Things Considered
Composed opening theme, With These Hands, an award winning film about Michigan farmers
White Hair & Wisdom featured in Leelanau Land Conservancy promotional video


NOTEWORTHY PERFORMANCES

Featured performer, Mandofest, Lawrence, KS 2005
Featured soloist, Classical Mandolin Society of America 2001, En Masse Mandolin Orchestra
Featured soloist, Mandofest 2001, Mandolin Orchestra
Featured performer, Mandofest, Lawrence, KS 2002
Featured performer, Classical Mandolin Society Conference 2002, Toronto Ont. Canada
Three tours of Italy, beginning 1999, locations include: Caesar Pollini Conservatory of
Music, The International School of Florence, Villa Bivliano, Circilo de Artisti & various Jazz Clubs


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Director of 88 Strings, a community plucked string orchestra offered through NMC
Maintain large private lesson practice for mandolin, guitar, improvisation and composition, all levels
Masterclass on improvistion; Caesar Pollono Conservatory of Music in Padova, Italy 2002
'Improvisation = Composition" workshop; Classical Mandolin Society of America convention, Bozeman, MT 2001
'Latin Rhythms for Strings Instruments' workshop; CMSA convention, Toronto, Canada 2002
general mandolin workshop; Blissfest, Cross Village, MI 2000
Mandolin workshop; Farmfest, Johanasburg MI 2000

DISCOGRAPHY

Microtones ~ Six Piece Chicken Dinner 1994
Big Swifty & Associates ~ Wouldn't You Rather? 1999
Don Julin & Glenn Wolff ~ Brite Lites Big Insects 1999
Don Julin & Ron Getz ~ Mr. Natural 2000
Bourcier, Julin & Wolff ~ Live at St. Andrews 2000
Don Julin ~ Tractor 2001
Don Julin & Jason Kott ~ Monday Night at Lil Bo's 2001
Neptune Quartet ~ Lonesome Cactus Groove 2002
Don Julin, Ron Getz & Wes Ivankovich ~ Without Words 2002
Neptune Quartet ~ Self Titled 2003
Don Julin ~ Prospero's Project 2004
Neptune Quartet ~ The Great Thaw 2004
Don Julin, Ron Getz, Dave Collini, Wes Ivanovich ~ Before I Forget 2004
Neptune Quartet ~ Live at Poppycocks 2006
Rusty Blaides ~ So Long Gone TBA