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Victor Julien-Laferrière
Victor Julien-Laferrière
Cello
Victor Julien-Laferrière was awarded first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2017, the first edition devoted to the cello, having already won the Prague Spring International Competition in 2012.
Genre
Classical
Biography
Victor Julien-Laferrière began the cello with René Benedetti and went on to further studies with Roland Pidoux at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Heinrich Schiff at the University of Performing Arts in Vienna and Clemens Hagen at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Alongside this, he took part in Seiji Ozawa’s International Music Academy Switzerland from 2005 to 2011.
Victor Julien-Laferrière has appeared at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, KKL Lucerne, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Essen Philharmonie, the Cellobiennale in Amsterdam, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Phillips Collection in Washington, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Rheingau Musik Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, la Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo, the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival and the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, among others.
His important recent engagements with orchestra have seen him guesting with the royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Valery Vergiev, Orchestre Aymphonique du Québec/Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Orchestre National de France/Kristiina Poska, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse/Tugan Sokhiev (at the Philharmonie de Paris), Belgian National Orchestra / Roberto González-Monjas, les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra/ Jun Märkl, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/Hossein Pishkar, Orchestre des Jeunes de l’Abbaye de Saintes/Philippe Herreweghe, RTÉ Orchestra Dublin/Nathalie Stutzmann, Brussels Philharmonic/Jiří Rožeň and Stéphane Denève, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne/Joshua Weilerstein, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra/Alexander Joel and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia/Olivier Grangean.
Highlights of his discography include a duo CD with the pianist Adam Laloum (Mirare), another as a member of the Trio les Esprits (Sony Music), and a duo album with the pianist Jonas Vitaud (Alpha Classics).
Victor Julien-Laferrière was named ‘Soloist of the Year’ at the 2018 Victoires de la Musique Classique.
Reviews
'It’s bracing, it’s thoughtful, it’s never less than engaging. See what you think.'
Gramophone
'There is no colour that he cannot hit, no emotion that he cannot master. The orchestra goes along completely with his graceful passion and makes the music sound as if it could not possibly have been intended otherwise.'
De Standaard
'These young musicians bring athletic vitality and refreshing insights to Dvorak’s great concerto, adopting a flexible approach to tempo and expression.'
The Sunday Times
