Julien Beaudiment Recital @ Flutistry Boston

Flutistry Boston is proud to present Julien Beaudiment, principal flutist of the Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon and professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, for an artist recital on May 27 at 6:00 pm! The recital will feature works by Brahms, Bellini, Mahler, and Bartok, featuring pianist Max Levinson.

This event has been co-sponsored by Sankyo Flutes and will feature a product showcase on Saturday, May 27 from 2 – 4 pm. This event is free to attend. Can’t make it in person? We’ve got you covered with a live stream available on our Facebook page as well as at www.fluteevents.com! {flute + artistry = #flutistry}

About Julien Beaudiment:

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 conducted by Kazushi Ono 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 in Great Britain. It is currently the only french musician to have held this position in a British Orchestra and one of the too few to do the same in an American Orchestra.

Originally from La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he crossed the English channel at the age of 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Paul Edmund-Davies and Averil Williams. He subsequently entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de music de Paris, where he won the first prize of flute and chamber music in the class of Sophie Cherrier, Vincent Lucas, and Michel Moraguès for chamber music.

He learned from great flautists such as Maxence Larrieu, Jacques Zoon, Joshua Smith, Ransom Wilson, Vicens Prats and Benoît Fromanger. His years in London and Los Angeles will have permanently marked and influenced his life both personally and musically.

His solo career is developing rapidly out of the Conservatoire de Paris. He plays as a soloist at major international concert halls as well as at renowned festivals, such as the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Khumo Art Hall and the Art Center in Seoul, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and the Tokyo Casals Hall, the Philharmonie in Essen, the Ljubljana philharmonic hall, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels , the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Opéra National de Montpellier, the Bilbao Opera, the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, the Chicago Symphony Center, the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, accompanied by the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestre Symphonique de Cannes, the Stuttgart Kammerorchester, the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie am Rhein, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Gangnam Philharmonic, the Chicago Philharmonic…

From the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, passing threw the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Royal Albert Hall in London, he plays in the most beautiful halls in the world with the Orchestra Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, 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 National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the NDR Orchestra in Hamburg, under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart , Vladimir Jurovski, Kirill Petrenko, Evelino Pido, Robin Ticciati, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Zacharias, James Conlon, Sir Roger Norrington, William Christie, Philippe Jordan, Ivan Fischer, Louis Langrée, Thierry Fischer, Emmanuel Krivine, Manfred Honeck, Thomas Hengelbrocht, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leonard Slatkin, Susanna Maliki… and musicians such as Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Itzhak Perlman, as well as the composers John Adams, Peter Eötvös, Matthias Pintscher , and the Hollywood star John Williams.

A Chamber music enthusiast, he is a prize winner of the international competition of Barcelona for duo sonata with the pianist Laetitia Bougnol. He also performs next to musicians such as Lawrence Foster, Emil Tabakov, Karl Heinz Steffens, Jonathan Stockhammer, Enrico Onofri of Il Giardino Armonico, Stefano Montanari, Antal Szallai, Eric Crambe, Guillaume Sutre, Sarah Nemtanu, Raphaël Oleg, Françoise Gnéri, Tasso Adamopoulos, Hartmut Rhode, Adrien Boisseau, Fabrice Pierre, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Anaïs Gaudemard, Christine Icart, Isabelle Moretti, Kyung Hee Sutre, Lluis Claret, Richard Hardwood , Jérôme Pernoo, Raphael Christian, Hervé Nkaoua, Florent Boffard Simon Zain, Didier Puntos, Roberte Mamou, Denis Pascal, Célimène Daudet, Ishiro Nodaira, Jean-François Zygel, Oliver Triendl, Ariane Jacob, the jazzman Antoine Hervé, the members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio, the Psophos and Diotima quartets, the flutists Emmanuel Pahud, Philippe Bernold, Michel Moraguès, Sophie Cherrier, Maxence Larrieu and Rachel Brown.

He has accompanied the choreographers Régine Chopinot and Benjamin Millepied playing Bach as a soloist, and expanded its activities by recording at Abbey Road in London with the pop star Sarah Brightman, in South Korea for the national Korean TV KBS, or in the studio during his American years in Los Angeles for the series “Doctor Who” and “Battle Star Galaktica”, as well as working with the actors Seth Macfarlane and Julie Andrews, the pop stars John Legend, Antony and the Johnsons, and Ruben Blades.

Teaching occupies a prominent place in his agenda. After having been the artistic deputy of José Daniel Castellon’s flute class at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, it is today the teacher of the flute class of the Cnsm in Lyon, where he succeeded his illustrious predecessors, Philippe Bernold and Maxence Larrieu.

He is also a  visiting professor at the Pole Supérieur de Musique de Bordeaux, as well at the “Talent Music Masters” of Brescia in Italy.

He teaches every summer at the Nice International Summer Academy in France, as well as at the Orford Music Academy in Canada, the Cagliari International Music Academy in Italy and at the San Francisco Flute festival, and at numerous masterclasses throughout the world, in North America (Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, Vanderbilt University, Manhattan School and Juilliard School in New York, Montreal University…) in Europe (Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Ljubljana Conservatory, Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Valencia, Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Granada in Spain, the Haute École de Musique de Genève, the Daniel Baremboim foundation in Seville…), and Asia (conservatories and universities in Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok, Beijing Central Conservatory and Shanghai Music Academy…).

Julien gives an important place in his life as an Ambassador of the “Kidney Foundation” and as a “Board member” of “Music Beyond” American association based in New York to train and support young musicians in Africa.

About Linda Toote:

A native of New York, Linda Toote is the Principal Flutist of the Boston Lyric Opera. A frequent performer with the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops and Esplanade Orchestras, she has also appeared as a soloist with these groups on several occasions. She has held the Principal Flute positions with the Tampa, Atlanta and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, and the Santa Fe and Lake George Opera Orchestras. Ongoing invitations from the Baltimore, Detroit and St. Louis Symphonies have included recording and touring with these orchestras. She was recently engaged by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a tour of European festivals.

Ms. Toote is the full time flute instructor at Boston University, Director of Woodwind Chamber Music and serves as the Woodwind Coordinator. She has been repeatedly engaged by the ARIA International Academy during the summer months and has been an invited guest recitalist and clinician at the Northern California Flute Camp. She has coached chamber music and masterclasses at the Tanglewood Music Center and serves as Director of the Flute Workshop of Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute. Ms. Toote has collaborated with the Muir Quartet in a residency of the composer Joan Tower at Boston University and has performed as soloist with both the Boston University Wind Ensemble and with the Boston University Chamber Orchestra.

In addition to serving as the Program Chair and Board Member for the National Flute Association, she has made convention appearances as soloist and clinician at events in Dallas, Washington D.C., Albuquerque, Chicago, Philadelphia, Anaheim and Charlotte. Most recently she premiered a concerto for both flute and piccolo composed by her Boston University colleague Martin Amlin at the convention held in Las Vegas in 2013. She is a frequent contributor to both the Flutist Quarterly and Flute Talk Magazine.

Her recordings include many symphonic works with the Atlanta Symphony on the Telarc label and works of many genres with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras.

A graduate of the Mannes College of Music, where she studied with John Wion, Ms. Toote was also a student of Thomas Nyfenger at Yale University. Ms. Toote

About Max Levinson:

Pianist Max Levinson is known as an intelligent and sensitive artist with a fearless technique. Levinson’s international career was launched when he won First Prize at the 1997 Dublin International Piano Competition, the first American to achieve this distinction. He is also recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Award. He has performed as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Colorado Symphony, New World Symphony, Utah Symphony, Boston Pops, San Antonio Symphony, Louisville Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and in recital at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Zürich’s Tonhalle, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, Jordan Hall in Boston, and throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.  Levinson is a graduate of Harvard and the New England Conservatory.  His teachers include Patricia Zander, Aube Tzerko and Bruce Sutherland.  An active chamber musician, Levinson has performed with the Tokyo, Vermeer, Mendelssohn, Parker and Borromeo Quartets, and appears at major music festivals including Santa Fe, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Bravo/Vail, La Jolla, Seattle and Cartagena.  He recently became a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. His recordings have earned wide acclaim, including his most recent recording with violinist Stefan Jackiw of the Three Brahms Sonatas (Sony).  Max Levinson serves as  the Chair of the Piano Department at the Boston Conservatory and is also a faculty member at New England Conservatory.