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Soundtrack & Filmscore Vocalist
 

 

 

 
 
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Julie Elven’s vocal abilities create an unparalleled depth of emotion in my soundtracks. I do not say this lightly: Julie is the sound I hear in my head whenever I must write deeply evocative, expansive and memorable music.
— Edouard Brenneisen, composer (League of Legends, Overwatch 2, Valorant, Honor of Kings)
 

About the Artist

 
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Julie Elven is a soundtrack vocalist, concert soloist and musician based in Munich, Germany.

She has been a soloist for Hollywood composers James Newton Howard, Lorne Balfe and Andrew Kawczynski, as well as for Hans Zimmer’s scoring company Bleeding Fingers Music. She is a featured solo vocalist on the GRAMMY longlisted and BAFTA winning video game Horizon Forbidden West, as well as the vocalist of the BAFTA nominated Horizon Zero Dawn soundtrack.

Julie has contributed studio vocals as a soloist to major themes in the Gran Turismo movie (2023), The Legend of Vox Machina, Horizon Forbidden West, Horizon Zero Dawn, League of Legends, BBC Universe, PBS Nova, World of Warcraft - Legion, Hearthstone, Honor of Kings, Star Citizen, RuneScape, multiple Blizzard Entertainment projects, Tomb Raider - The Dark Angel album project, and more.

She regularly performs as a concert soloist with orchestras and ensembles internationally, and performed her original vocals from the Horizon Forbidden West soundtrack (Joris de Man - "Promise of the West") at The Game Awards 2021 with Lorne Balfe, Pedro Eustache and The Game Awards Orchestra to a record breaking live stream audience of 85 Million views.

Julie was invited into the Recording Academy as a GRAMMY voting member in 2023.

On Lorne Balfe’s and Andrew Kawczynski’s Hollywood movie score to the film Gran Turismo (2023), Julie contributed solo vocals to major themes and pivotal musical moments throughout the score.

She is featured as a solo vocalist in Guerrilla Games’ / Sony Playstation’s BAFTA winning video game Horizon Forbidden West. The soundtrack was longlisted for the Grammys by The Recording Academy in October 2022.

She also contributed solo vocals to composer Anze Rozman’s score with Hans Zimmer’s critically acclaimed scoring company Bleeding Fingers Music for the BBC Earth documentary UNIVERSE, which premiered in October 2021. In the US, the series was released on PBS Nova, which is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

Her angelic voice elevated the story arc to an emotional level I couldn’t have dreamed of. I’m always grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with her but this was special on another level.
— Neal Acree, BAFTA nominated composer (World of Warcraft, Diablo IV, Overwatch, Honor of Kings)

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Recently, Julie Elven contributed solo vocals to Neal Acree’s soundtrack for the Amazon Prime series The Legend of Vox Machina (Season 2), which debuted as #1 on Amazon Prime.

Julie is the vocalist of both the 2017 and 2019 Star Guardian Themes in Riot Games’ League of Legends, composed by Edouard Brenneisen, and is the featured vocalist in composer Neal Acree’s “Anduin Theme” in World of Warcraft.

As an orchestral soloist, Julie has been featured with James Newton Howard, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Game Awards Orchestra 2021, the North Netherlands Orchestra, the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Vienna and the Málaga Symphony Orchestra as well as various ensembles and bands.

In 2017, Julie was selected by Hollywood composer James Newton Howard out of thousands of audition entries to perform his "The Hanging Tree" solo from The Hunger Games movie franchise with him and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra during his European tour concert in Vienna.

Julie has performed her original video game vocals live at numerous international events, including The Game Awards 2021, the official Horizon Forbidden West launch event 2022, the Devcom Heroes Award Gala during Gamescom 2019, as a soloist at a symphonic video game concert series with the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021 at classical concert venues throughout the Netherlands, the German Game Awards 2018Playstation Experience (PSX) Germany 2017, with World of Warcraft composer Neal Acree and the Málaga Symphony Orchestra at the Movie Score Málaga Festival in Spain, and at promotion and launch events of the video games she's sung on. 

She was a featured speaker at Reboot Develop conference 2023, EGX 2021 and 2020, at the 2019 Reeperbahn Festival Conference in Hamburg and at SONOS’ 2018 event The Sound Of Gaming.

The Horizon Zero Dawn music team has been nominated for a 2018 BAFTA - British Academy Games Award for Best Music for Horizon Zero Dawn.

The Main Theme from Horizon Zero Dawn, Joris de Man - Aloy's Theme featuring Julie's lead vocals received a 2018 Game Audio Network Guild - G.A.N.G. Award.

At the 2018 Annual Game Music Awards, Julie received an Outstanding Artist - Soloist of the Year nomination.

Julie Elven and composer Daniel Jiménez-Wall's Final Fantasy X collaboration, "Rozen - Battle for Spira feat. Julie Elven" received a 2017 Game Audio Network Guild - G.A.N.G. Award for Best Electro / Hybrid Remix.

Julie frequently features as a soloist on non-media music related albums and projects, spanning different genres from pop, electronic, ambient to progressive, rock and metal styles.

When she doesn't sing, Julie composes and songwrites for the game and soundtrack projects she is working on, and composes original acoustic cinematic music which she records with her piano, violin and voice.

 
 
 
 
 

Photography credits: Jan Willem Groen (1), Kevin Winter / Getty Images (2, 5, 7), EosAndy (3, 4), Mariska de Groot (8, 11, 16, 18), Franziska Freiwald (15), Fabian Vogl (16), Mariët Mons (17)