About

Recognised as one of the most promising french cellists of her generation, Juliette Herlin has performed widely both in Europe and in the United States. As a soloist, chamber musician, and recitalist, she has appeared in such prestigious venues as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Cité de la Musique, the Musée du Louvre, and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Alice Tully Hall in New York as well as at the Minsk Philharmony, in Belarus. An avid chamber musician, she has shared the stage with Donald Weilerstein, Gérard Caussé, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Roger Tapping, Romain Guyot, Amaury Coeytaux, Jérôme Ducros and, Jérôme Pernoo. She is a founding member of the Aletheia Piano Trio with violinist Francesca dePasquale and pianist Fei-Fei Dong. Formed at the Juilliard School, the Aletheia Piano Trio is quickly risen to acclaim. Highlights of next season include performances at the Palm Beach Chamber Music Society, St. Vincent College Concert Series, and Shandelee Music Festival. Juliette has had the chance of working closely with such artists as Itzhak Perlman, Alan Gilbert, Robert Levin, Ida Kavafian, David Finckel, and Joseph Kalichstein. She has been invited to Yellow Barn, the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, Music Academy of the West, Encuentro de Santander (Spain), the Festival Pablo Casals (France), the International Holland Music Sessions (Netherlands), and, among others, the Festival Jeunes Talents. She has taken part in master classes given by Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Carter Brey, Torleif Thedeen, Natalia Gutman, Lawrence Lesser, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and Troels Svane. Winner of the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe String Competition, Juliette is also the recipient of first prizes at the International Vatelot/Rampal Music Competition and the UFAM Competition in Paris. She is laureate of the Grunin Prize as well as the “Fondation Safran pour la Musique” and the ADAMI. Juliette has performed several times as a soloist with the Orchestre des Universités de Paris, and most recently with the Orchestre des Etudiants du CNSMDP under the direction of Maxime Pascal. The conductors under whose baton Juliette has performed include James Levine, Alan Gilbert, Georges Prêtre, Leonard Slatkin, James Gaffigan, Zoltán Kocsis, Maxim Vengerov, Alain Altinoglu. She is a substitute with Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Paris and has performed with the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio-France and the Ensemble Inter-Contemporain. Very interested in music from her time, she was a member of the “New Juilliard Ensemble” and has premiered works by Arvo Pärt, Graziane Finzi, Robin deRaaf, Betty Olivero and, Nicolas Namoradze. Eager to discover various repertoires and to explore historically informed performances, Juliette (who studied harpsichord as a child) has taken baroque cello lessons with both Phoebe Carrai and Bruno Cocset. Born in Paris in 1991, Juliette Herlin was admitted at the age of sixteen to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP) where she obtained her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees studying with Jérôme Pernoo. She then continued her studies at the Juilliard School with Richard Aaron. Juliette is now pursuing a D.M.A at the University of Southern California under the guidance of Ralph Kirshbaun. She is the grateful recipient of support from the French Ministry of Culture, from the Balas Company, and from the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF).

Music

Bach: 6 Suites for solo cello
Schumann: Adzgio and Allegro
Schumann: Fantiasiestücke
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
Beethoven: Soanatas for cello and piano
Schumann: 5 pieces in popular style
Boccherini: Sonatas for cello
Fauré: Cello pieces for cello and piano
Debussy: Sonatafor cello and piano
Franck: Sonata for violin and piano (Transcription for cello)
Prokofiev: Sonata for cello and Piano

Videos

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