Renown flautist Julien Beaudiment brilliantly represents the French flute school. Born in 1978, he crossed the Channel when he was 18 years old, to study at the Guidhall School of Music in London with Paul Edmund-Davies and Averill Williams. He stayed there two years, before finishing his studies at the “Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris” with Sophie Cherrier, assisted by Vincent Lucas and Michel Moragués for Chamber Music. He successfully obtained the flute and chamber music awards. His studies enabled him to rub shoulders with other great professors, such as Vicens Prats, Maxence Larrieu, Jacques Zoon, Benoît Fromanger, Ramson Wilson, Joshua Smith.
While he was at 22 still as student at the Conservatoire, he was appointed principal flute at the “Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon”, today conducted by Kazushi Ono. Very quickly his concert career led him to perform on great stages and renown festivals.
From 2005 to 2006 he was appointed principal flute of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Thierry Fischer and he temporarily took leave from his Orchestra in Lyon, which he rejoined the following year. He is currently the only French flautist to have held this position in a great British Orchestra.
A chamber music enthusiast, he is a Laureate of the Barcelona international sonata competition. He performed beside artists like Lawrence Foster, Enrico Onofri from the “Giardino Armonico”, Stefano Montanari, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Philippe Bernold, Lluis claret, Sarah Nemtanu, Hervé Nkaoua, Denis Pascal, Ishiro Nodaira, Jean Francois Zygel, Oliver Triendl, the jazzman Antoine Hervé, the members of the “Wiener Philharmoniker” and the “Berliner Philharmoniker”, Ariane Jacob, the “quatuor Psophos”, the “quatuor Diotima”, Rachel Brown, Michel Moragues, Elizabeth Vidal, Christine Icart…
