Born in 1996 in Maracay, Venezuela. Julimar Gonzalez began her violin studies at the age of 7 with Professor Heemath Jahoor at the world-renowned music program known as ‘El Sistema’.  
 
She has appeared as a soloist in various cities around Venezuela. She has also performed overseas recitals in Barcelona, Spain at the Vesprades de Tardor Music Festival and she has spent her summers at Chautauqua Music Festival and Bowdoin Music Festival in the United States during consecutive years since 2014. 

Ms. Gonzalez in 2022 won the concerto competition at Roosevelt University as a graduate student and in the same year she won first place in the Collegiate Strings Division. In 2021 Ms. Gonzalez won The Farewell Trust award by the Musician’s Club of Woman competition. In 2019 she won the concerto competition at Chicago College of Performing Arts and got first place at the Illinois American String Teachers Association Competition of the same year. In the past she has also been a semifinalist of the Sphinx Competition in Detroit and a finalist at the SAI concerto competition held at Chautauqua Institution. 

Since 2013, Ms. Gonzalez has been a student of Almita and Roland Vamos. She earned her Bachelor’s degree and Performance Diploma in Violin Performance at Roosevelt University.