Since 1989, contralto Julia Lacy Armstrong pursued a busy career as a concert soloist and recitalist, appearing with the Austin Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Mid-Texas Symphony, the Victoria Bach Festival, and a number of other Texas musical organizations, as well as performing solo recitals of Romantic and Twentieth Century song. She appeared frequently as a soloist with the Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble and with the Austin Civic Chorus, with whom she has appeared in a variety of works, including the Bach St. John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem, Copland’s  In The Beginning, and Messiah performances too numerous to count. Mrs. Armstrong has sung in France and at Carnegie Hall as a member of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, and sang regularly with the Conspirare Ensemble, conducted by Craig Hella Johnson. She was also a founding member of the Austin ProChorus, a sixteen-voice ensemble devoted to the works of contemporary and ethnic composers, for whom she commissioned an original setting of Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” from rising choral composer Eric Whitacre. After moving to Taos, she has appeared in various Opera Tazza productions, including Hansel and Gretel, La Traviata, and Aida, as well as concert appearances with the Taos Community Chorus and recitals with soprano Kristin Woolf.