Julian Perkins has a wealth of operatic experience as a conductor, continuo player and repetiteur and has taught in London at the National Opera Studio.

Julian has performed and recorded on the harpsichord for productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He will conduct Mozart's La finta giardiniera for the Dutch National Opera Academy in 2012, and has conducted staged performances of Telemann's Pimpinone for the Buxton Festival, Arne's Artaxerxes for New Chamber Opera, a Baroque-inspired play for New Kent Opera, Cunningham's The Okavango Macbeth for the Cambridge Summer Music Festival, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Handel's Theodora and Semele for Benslow Music.

As director of Sounds Baroque, Julian has conducted performances of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Alcina, Aminta e Fillide and Apollo e Dafne, and the first modern UK production of Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Giuditta.

Julian has worked with many notable conductors including Harry Bicket, William Christie, Harry Christophers, Christopher Hogwood, Bernard Labadie, Paul McCreesh, Nicholas McGegan, Sir Roger Norrington, Philip Pickett, Trevor Pinnock and the late Sir Charles Mackerras. He performs in numerous productions in repertoire ranging primarily from Monteverdi to Mozart.