Julius Akira Mauldin is a Japanese-American conductor currently based in Manchester, UK. He is the Artistic Director of the Westside Chamber Players, a chamber orchestra in New York City. He is also an Assistant Conductor for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic, working with conductors such as John Storgårds, Adam Hickox, and Ben Gernon. He is also formerly a Julius Rudel Fellow with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, assisting JoAnn Falletta during their season. He has conducted the Hallé, Manchester Camerata, Buffalo Philharmonic, Westside Chamber Players, Reno Chamber Orchestra, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, Stockport Symphony Orchestra, and the Crosby Symphony Orchestra. Julius has also participated in masterclasses with Nicholas Pasquet, Ludovic Morlot, Mark Heron, and Neil Thompson. As a boy chorister, he has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra under the batons of Yannick Nézét-Seguin, Charles Dutoit, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and Jacques Lacombe, and was the featured soloist in a Lincoln Center production of Wozzeck with London’s Philharmonia orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen. He is currently studying as a first year at the Royal Northern College of Music, under Mark Heron and Clark Rundell.