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Julie Weiner is a born vocalist who comes from a family of singers and musicians. Julie is also an exceptional dancer and veteran of theater especially musical comedy and reveals her love of lyric and melody with captivating tenderness and a heart full of soul. She has a voice that is at once technically spot on and capable of improvisation and searing emotional declaration. Julie has a nearly three octave range and a tone of crystalline clarity yet deep, sultry resonance in her lower range.

Doug Onstad, who has arranged all of the duo’s piano interpretations, knows how to hold the gorgeous melodies of the pair’s song book in chordal inventions that are at once classic and adventurous. Julie and Doug also perform some of Doug’s own compositions that have grown out of Doug’s love for American music. Jazz, Rock and R&B are informed by grounding in classical music for piano in alchemy of all of the best of our national musical vocabulary.

Doug's music has been awarded Best Song at The West Coast Songwriter events and with Julie for Best Performance.

Together as Brulée, Julie Wiener and Doug Onstad offer a smooth yet exhilarating ride on the highways of sound. Perfect accompaniment to revelry and capable of owning the spotlight

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Album Review

Brulee: New Beginnings

Read "New Beginnings" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Jazz has always been about being musically clever in inventive ways. Consider only Charlie Parker saying, on October 24, 1947, “I'm going to play “Embraceable You," winking, and then playing a completely different melody over the harmonic structure, and the cleverness in jazz is defined. Now, add a sense of humor to the proceedings and the whole creative affair goes from lo-fi to hi-fi at light speed. Likewise, the water in Sonoma County obviously acts synergistically with ...

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Harmonious duo of Brulée delivers a twist on jazz in sparkling debut album

Source: Lauren Rogers

Her voice is a crystalline beauty, as emotionally fragile as Karen Carpenter and silky smooth like velvet; it's so clear you can almost see through it, flowing gently like liquid. His voice has the deep timbre of the blues and the gentle spirit of folk. Known together as Brulée, Julie Weiner and Doug Onstad weave a certain kind of magic on their debut album, New Beginnings. On the CD, the Sonoma County duo harmonizes together like two birds in flight, ...

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