Julien Beaudiment, Anaïs Gaudemard, Matteo Trentin, Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon & Philippe Bernold
Biography Julien Beaudiment, Anaïs Gaudemard, Matteo Trentin, Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon & Philippe Bernold
Julien Beaudiment
is considered as one of France’s leading flautists. After holding the position of principal flute of the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, Julien Beaudiment is today principal flute of the Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon and professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. He has also held the same position with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
After his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Paul Edmund-Davies, Julien entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de music de Paris, where he won the first prize of flute in the class of Sophie Cherrier.
Julien plays now in the most beautiful halls in the world as a soloist and within the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Orchestra Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Estonian Festival, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Hallé Orchestra, the Beijing Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris and the NDR Orchestra in Hamburg. He performs under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Colin Davis, Paavo Järvi, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vladimir Jurovski, Kirill Petrenko, Robin Ticciati, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Zacharias, James Conlon, Sir Roger Norrington, William Christie, Ivan Fischer, and alongside musicians such as Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Itzhak Perlman, and the Hollywood star John Williams.
Anaïs Gaudemard
As an authentic ambassador for her instrument, Anaïs Gaudemard declared in her first album’s booklet featuring concertos by Boieldieu, Debussy and Ginastera on the Clavès records label: “I love the harp for all that is unknown about it, since for me it is limitless”, and she wanted to “unveil its wide sound repertoire”.
It did not take long before the soloist’s international fame was established, after being awarded the 1st Prize at the prestigious International Harp Competition in Israel 2012, as well as the 2nd and Prize of the Münchener Kammerorchester at the ARD Competition 2016 in Munich. Anaïs Gaudemard was also awarded the Thierry Scherz Prize at the Festival des Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad 2015 and nominated “ECHO Rising Star” 2018/19 by the Philharmonie de Paris and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon. Since then, she has made debuts on the most prestigious international stages, such as the Wiener Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Barbican Centre (London) and Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), among others. The Institut de France recently awarded her the Tissier-Grandpierre Prize in recognition of her career.
Anaïs Gaudemard plays with a Style 23 Gold Concert Grand harp, a gift from the Lyon & Healy harp makers that she received at the 18th International Harp Competition in Israel in 2012.
Philippe Bernold
began his musical studies in Colmar, France, studying the flute and later composition and conducting under René Matteer, himself a student of Charles and Fritz Münch. At the Paris Conservatory, he earned the First prize in flute and the next year, at the age of 23, was appointed first flute of the National Opera Orchestra of Lyon. In 1987 he won First Prize in the Jean-Pierre Rampal International Competition in Paris. This prize paved the way for an international solo career with renowned artists and orchestras, from Rostropovitch to Capuçon.
Orchestras with which he performed include those of Paris, Tokyo, Budapest or Moscow with such conductors as Menuhin, Gardiner, Maazel or Nagano. Mr. Bernold’s performances have taken him from Paris to Seoul, from London to Moscow, and to the principal festivals around the world.
In 1995, encouraged by his master J.E. Gardiner, he founded The Virtuosos of the Lyon Opera, with which he performed extensively thereafter. Since, he has conducted orchestras such as Sinfonia Varsovia, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonie, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Prague Philharmonia, Kanazawa Ensemble (Japan), Wiener Kammerorchester and Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, to name a few.
Bernold’s first CD in 1989 won him the Grand Prize of the Charles Cros Academy. Since then, he has recorded more than 20 CD with Harmonia Mundi, EMI. Philippe Bernold is Professor of Chamber Music and Flute at the National Paris Conservatory.
