Chauvin Julien

Biography

Julien Chauvin was awarded the first Prize of the Paris General Contest in 1997 and went to study with Vera Beths at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. He also worked with Wilbert Hazelzet, Jaap Ter Linden and Anner Bylsma on performing works from the baroque and classical periods.

In 2003, he wins a prize in the Brugge International competition and performs since then as soloist in Georgia, United States, Germany, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, at the Deauville and Cordes-sur-Ciel festivals and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
His experience leads him to join renowned baroque ensembles (such as Concerto Köln, les Musiciens du Louvre, le Concert d’Astrée, l’ensemble baroque de Limoges) and he performs romantic and modern repertoire (in direct collaboration with Steve Reich, György Kurtag, Thierry Escaich, Thomas Adès and Philippe Hersant) along with Renaud Capuçon, Jérôme Ducros, Jérôme Pernoo and Bertrand Chamayou.

Since 2005, together with Jérémie Rhorer, he leads le Cercle de l’Harmonie, and founds in 2006 the Cambini quartet (Paris) ; both ensembles aiming to perform again masterpieces from the French repertoire, from the end of the Ancien Régime to 1830. He records a portrait for television (January 2007, Mezzo channel). http://quatuorcambiniparis.blogspot.com/

He recorded Haydn’s concerto in G along with concerti for flute and violoncello performed by Alexis Kossenko and Atsushi Sakaï (Eloquentia, released April 2009).