Juliette de Marcellus is a lifelong musician, teacher, writer and lecturer on music, and a prize-winning music critic who served as feature writer and arts critic for the Cox Newspaper chain in Florida for twenty years. She was named best music critic of the South-Eastern sector of the United States by the Chicago Times several years in a row. She has been a contributor to Opera News in New York, with reviews of Florida performances published by the magazine, and has also contributed music articles for the magazine ARTS, produced by the Palm Beach County Council of the Arts, and other magazines.  

       
Currently Juliette lectures twice weekly at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach Florida on How to Listen to Classical Music, as well as The Legacy of French Culture. She has found time to produce Rose and Henri, a magnificent book on the dual culture of her parents – French aristocratic and Edwardian English – as well as edited and published The Atlas of Man, the unique anthropological masterwork of her father, Count Henri de Marcellus.
Juliette has collaborated with various famous musicians over the years. She was co-creator, with the Swedish composer and conductor Ulf Bjorlin, of the symphonic narrative The Snow Queen, based on the Hans Andersen children’s classic. She also created an imaginative narrative version of Prokofiev’s Lt Kije Suite at the request of Maestro Neeme Järvi of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She was a close friend and associate of the distinguished conductors Paul Csonka and Anton Guadagno, and composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Among her piano students she numbers the composer Richard Danielpour.

For twelve years Juliette co-produced a series of chamber music concerts at Sotheby’s in London with pianist Alan Kogosowski. This series, known as Schubertiades at Sotheby’s, became a celebrated feature of London’s musical life. She collaborated with Kogosowski on the narrative script of his six-part television series Chopin, A Life to Remember, which has been broadcast in America and sells internationally on DVD, and was also instrumental, together with Menotti, in encouraging Kogosowski to produce the acclaimed orchestration of Rachmaninoff’s great Trio Elégiaque, creating the Concerto Elégiaque.

Juliette’s comprehensive knowledge of the musical world – including the music business – has given her a sharp and incisive insight into all its attitudes, practices, foibles and preconceptions, as well as the joy and uplifting spiritual qualities which have made it one of the highest of human pursuits since time immemorial. She is not jaded, as someone might have a right to be, who has personally seen musicians from Sir Thomas Beecham, Leonard Bernstein and Artur Rubinstein to Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman and all the latest competition winners come and go, together with their entourages of press agents and managers.

Juliette all-embracing knowledge of music and the music world is always succinctly and wittily expressed, according laymen the same respect as professionals, and invariably enhancing everyone’s understanding and enjoyment of this profound and affecting yet quirky and often amusing world. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Carnegie Hall is a gift with Juliette’s compliments to all music lovers. Please follow the link to download free PDF.

If you would like a hard copy sent to you - or several copies (good Christmas gift) - please send $9.95 plus $3 postage per book to Juliette de Marcellus, c/o 357 Crescent Drive, Palm Beach, FL. 33480, USA