Australian born jazz violinist Julian Ferraretto moved to London in 2002 and has since become known for his virtuosic and melodically charged improvisational style. He has performed with many of the UK’s most important contemporary jazz and world music bands including the Neil Cowley Trio, Natacha Atlas’s Mazeeka Ensemble, Eska Mtungwazi, Robert Mitchell’s Panacea and Wigmore Hall Learning’s Ignite Ensemble. As a bandleader, side-man and strings M.D., Julian has played at all the major Jazz Festivals around Europe including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux and The London Jazz Festival.

Now based in Australia, Julian continues to collaborate internationally through string arranging and recording, alongside touring and education projects.

In February 2016 Julian Ferraretto curated the 1st of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s 'Gigs at Grainger” series The sell-out concert titled “Gypsy to Swing – The Journey of Jazz Violin saw Julian in the role as soloist, arranger, orchestrator and composer. In 2017 he opened the series once more composing a new suite: “Have Violin Will Travel”, which was recorded and later broadcast on ABC Classic FM. This has led to a series of commissions from the Orchestra collaboratively composing and orchestrating with regional and community groups in their “Floods of Fire”
and “Silos and Symphonies” projects.

2022 saw Julian arrange and orchestrate the music of John Schumann for the concert “Lawson - A life in Words and Music” with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew and actor Richard Roxburgh.