Orchestre de Picardie, Julien Hervé, Yan Levionnois & Arie van Beek
Biography Orchestre de Picardie, Julien Hervé, Yan Levionnois & Arie van Beek
Julien Hervé
Born in 1980, Julien Hervé briefly studied physics before devoting himself to music at the Conservatoire de Paris, in Pascal Moraguès' clarinet class.
Passionate about chamber music, he founded the Ensemble Capriccioso while still pursuing his studies, a group that has taken home several international prizes. His first recording was devoted to the music of Nicolas Bacri and was nominated for the French Grammies (Victoires de la Musique) in 2007.
In 2008, he was appointed principal clarinet for the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, at that time conducted by Valery Gergiev, and later by Yannick Nézet Séguin.
From 2006 to 2013, he was solo clarinetist for the Les Siècles orchestra, satisfying his curiosity about historical instruments. He left Les Siècles in 2013 to join the Het Collectief Chamber Music Quintet, of which he became a permanent member, and with which he explored music from Schoenberg to the current day.
He is also a member of the Ensemble Calliopée with which he recorded several albums. In 2011, he recorded his first internationally acclaimed album Waiting for Benny for the Naxos label.
An eclectic musician, Julien appeared on the album Dedicated To You by Dutch jazz singer Kim Hoorweg and was invited by Paulinho da Viola to perform at her Brazil Sinfonico concerts in the Netherlands.
As a soloist, Julien Hervé has played with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Rotterdam, Prag Philharmonia, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lodz, the Louisiana Chamber Orchestra, Les Dissonances, Les Siècles, La Symphonie des Lumières, the Orchestre régional de Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and the Madrid Banda Sinfónica Municipal.
Julien Hervé plays on Buffet Crampon clarinets, with mouthpieces and reeds by D'Addario, a company with which he has closely collaborated on the development of their “Réserve” line.
Julien has been invited all over the world to give master classes and since 2015, he is clarinet teacher at the Rotterdam University of Performing Arts (Codarts).
Yan Levionnois
began studying the cello with his father before continuing with Marc Coppey, Philippe Muller and Truls Mørk, and attended master-classes with Gary Hoffman, Heinrich Schiff, Natalia Gutman, Steven Isserlis and Natalia Shakhovskaïa.
Levionnois obtained the first prize at the André Navarra and In Memoriam Rostropovitch international competitions, and was awarded two special prizes at the last Rostropovitch Competition, including that for the most remarkable personality. He was nominated at the Victoires de la Musique 2011 as Solo Instrumental Revelation. He is the prize winner of the Banque Populaire and Safran Foundations. He has given solo performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under conducters such as Daniele Gatti, Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Jacek Kaspszyk, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Heinrich Schiff and Arie Van Beek.
Yan Levionnois played at La Folle Journée in Nantes and in Tokyo, the Pablo Casals, the Roque d’Anthéron, the Bel-Air, the Cordes-sur-Ciel and the Deauville festivals, the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, and the Moments musicaux in La Baule. He has many chamber music partners, notably Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, Svetlin Roussev, David Grimal, Gérard Caussé, Jérôme Pernoo, Aloïs Posch, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Michel Dalberto, Claire Désert, Nelson Goerner, Brigitte Engerer, David Guerrier, Emmanuel Pahud, Richard Galliano and the Ebène quartet. With Mélanie Clapiès, violonist, he plays in "Les Pierrots Lunaires". An ardent defender of the music of his time, he has worked with composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Eric Tanguy and Krystof Maratka.
His first solo cd, Cello Solo, was released in February 2013 for Fondamenta, and obtained the prestigious ffff of Télérama magazine. His discography also includes a recording of Rachmaninov's second Elegiac Trio with Renaud Capuçon and Denis Kozhukhin, live in Lugano, for EMI classics.
He plays a cello made for him by Patrick Robin in 2005.
