Recipient of the 2023 Young Artist Award and the 2024 COMPASS Meritorious Award, Julian is a Singaporean composer, arranger, music director, educator and performer. He teaches at Institute of Technical Education and serves on the Board of Directors of NADI Singapura. Julian has conducted masterclasses for music students at School of the Arts Singapore (SOTA) and Raffles Institution, and was the keynote speaker at the Combined EMP and MEP Schools’ Camp 2024.

Julian has composed for Wild Rice: An Inspector Calls, Tartuffe: The Imposter, Pinocchio, The Amazing Celestial Race, Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens, The Emperor’s New Clothes; Spare Room Productions’ Tropicana; Esplanade’s The Feelings Farm; The Theatre Practice’s The wee Question Mark trilogy, and the fireworks display of the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown (2014-2016), among many others. His works for children have been performed abroad, including Kuo Pao Kun’s Day I Met the Prince (ACT Shanghai International Theatre Festival 2016), Under the Baobab Tree (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011) and Magic Porridge Pot (Petaling Jaya Live Arts 2014).

As music director, he has helmed overseas assignments such as Liao Zhai Rocks! (Shanghai International Musical Festival 2019), Spotlight Singapore (Mexico City 2015), Mark Chan’s Flight of the Jade Bird (Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival 2012), and home-grown projects such as Hossan Leong’s Hossan-AH 50!, Pam Oei’s Faghag, Kuo Pao Kun’s Lao Jiu: The Musical and Goh Lay Kuan’s Returning (Singapore International Festival of Arts 2015). Additionally, Julian has conducted and arranged for Joyful Strings, Ministry of Bellz, Orchestra of the Music Makers, Metropolitan Festival Orchestra, Rave Harps, Bossa Celli, re:mix, RaghaJazz, and many more.