Julien Beaudiment, Célia Oneto Bensaid, Karine Deshayes
Biographie Julien Beaudiment, Célia Oneto Bensaid, Karine Deshayes
Julien Beaudiment
After holding the position of first solo flute at the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic, Julien Beaudiment is now first solo flute of the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon conducted by Daniele Rustioni and professor at the Conservatoire de région de Rueil Malmaison (Paris) as well as at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon where he succeeded his illustrious predecessor Philippe Bernold.
He also held the same position in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He is currently the only French musician to have held this position in a British orchestra and one of the few to do the same in an American orchestra.
Originally from La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he crossed the Manche at the age of 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Paul Edmund-Davies. He then entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he obtained the first flute and chamber music prizes in Sophie Cherrier's class.
His years spent in London and Los Angeles will have definitely marked and influenced his life both personally and musically.
His soloist career developed rapidly when he left the Paris Conservatory. He performs as a soloist at renowned festivals and on major international stages such as the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Salle Gaveau, the Marrinsky de Saint Petersburg, the Khumo Art Hall and the Art Centre in Seoul, the Tokyo Bunka Kaïkan, the Tokyo Casals Hall, the Philharmonie de Essen, the Ljubljana Philharmonie, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the National Opera in Lyon, the Opera National de Montpellier, the Opera in Bilbao, the Teatro Lyrico in Cagliari, the Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Chicago Symphony Centre, the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Voxman concert hall in Iowa City, the Brisbane Griffith Hall in Australia, the Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, accompanied by the Orchestre de l'Opera National de Lyon, the Symphony and Lyric Orchestra of Nancy, the Marriinsky Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes, the Stuttgart Kammerorchester, the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie am Rhein, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neus, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Gangnam Philharmonic, the Leopoldinum Symphony of Wroclaw, the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Philharmonic, the Royal Bangkok Symphony, and the orchestra Nice Philharmonic.
From the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, through the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam or the Royal Albert Hall in London, he performs in the most beautiful halls in the world with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Estonian Festival Orchestra, the "Dissonances", the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, the Hallé Orchestra, the Beijing Opera Orchestra, the Paris Orchestra, the Paris National Opera Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the NDR Orchestra From Hamburg, under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Alan Gilbert, Edo de Waart, Vladimir Jurovski, Kirill Petrenko, Ivan Fischer, Evelino Pido, Robin Ticciati, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Zacharias, James Conlon, Philippe Jordan, Sir Roger Norrington, William Christie, Louis Langrée, Thierry Fischer, Emmanuel Krivine, Leonard Slatkin... musicians Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Itzhak Perlman, as well as composers John Adams, Peter Eötvös, Matthias Pintscher, and Hollywood star John Williams.
Passionate about chamber music, he is the winner of the Barcelona international duet sonata competition with pianist Laetitia Bougnol. He has also performed with musicians such as the conductors Lawrence Foster, Benjamin Levy, Lavard Skou Larsen, Emil Tabakov, Kazushi Ono, Karl Heinz Steffens, Jonathan Stockhammer, Enrico Onofri du Giardino Armonico, Stefano Montanari, the soloists David Grimal, Éric Crambes, Guillaume Sutre, Sarah Nemtanu, Raphaël Oleg, Françoise Gnéri, Tasso Adam Hartmut, Rhode, Adrien Boisseau, Fabrice Pierre, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Anaïs Gaudemard, Isabelle Moretti, Lluis Claret, Richard Hardwood, Jerome Pernooo, Eric Lesage, Bruno Fontaine, Hervé Nkaoua, Hervé Billaut, Florent Boff, Emmanuel Strosser, Marie Joseph, Simon Zaoui, Denis Pascal, Celimène Daudet, Ishiro Nodaira, Jean François Zygel, Ariane Jacob, Celia Oneto Bensaïd, Manuel Rossfelder and Eric Franceries, the members of the Wiener Philharmoniker, the München Philharmoniker, the Bayerische Rundfunkt, the Mariinsky, the Psophos and Diotima quartets, the flutists Emmanuel Pahud, Philippe Bernold, Rachel Brown, Maxence Larrieu....
He accompanied choreographers Régine Chopinot and Benjamin Millepied by playing Bach solo, and expanded his activities by recording in London at Abbey Road with pop star Sarah Brightman, in South Korea for the national channel KBS, or in the studio during his American years in Los Angeles for the series "Doctor Who" and "Battle Star Galaktica", as well as collaborating with actors Seth Macfarlane and Julie Andrews, pop stars John Legend, Antony and the Johnsons, and Ruben Blades.
He teaches every summer at the international summer academy of Nice, and at the academy of the Forget domain in Canada, as well as at many masterclasses around the world: Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, Vanderbilt University, Manhattan School, Mannes Shool of Music and Juilliard School in New York, University of Montreal, University of North Texas in Dallas, the University of Miami, the Iowa City University, Brisbane Conservatory, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal College of Music in London, Royal Northern College of Manchester, Helsinki Academy, Conservatoire de Ljubljana, Saint Petersburg, Musikhochschule Hamburg, Universität sur Musik Wien, Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Valencia, Granada, Madrid, the Geneva High School of Music, the Daniel Baremboim Foundation of Seville, conservatories and universities of Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok, Central Conservatory of Beijing, Shanghai Music Academy...
In 2025, he was named “Distinguished artist” by the Franco-Canadienne Cultural Exchange through which he was an artist in residence at the University of Toronto.
Julien gives an important place in his life as an ambassador of the "Reymn Foundation" and as a "Board member" of "Music Beyond", an American association based in New York aimed at training and supporting young musicians in Africa.
3 records are to his credit, "California dreamin'" for the Klarthe label, and for the Orchid Classics label "Badinerie" in recital with the harpist Marie Pierre Langlamet, and "Mozart" accompanied by the orchestra of the Lyon National Opera.
Célia Oneto Bensaid
Graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with five first prizes awarded with the highest distinctions, she then joined the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she received the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste, while benefiting from the guidance of Claire Désert, Brigitte Engerer, Maria João Pires, Jean-Claude Pennetier and Rena Shereshevskaya, who particularly inspired and enriched her.
Today, it is on the most prestigious stages that she carefully chooses the repertoires she champions: American music (including her own transcriptions), French music, contemporary works, and music by women composers play a major role in her programs. She has notably premiered numerous pieces by Kaija Saariaho, Diana Syrse, Camille Pépin, and Fabien Waksman.
A Yamaha artist, supported by the Fondation Banque Populaire and the Fondation Safran, Célia is a laureate of numerous inter- national competitions both in solo and chamber music (Piano Campus, Fondation Cziffra, Concours Nadia et Lili Boulanger, Pro Musicis, HSBC Prize of the Aix-en-Provence Lyric Festival, etc.); in 2017, she also received the Audience Award from the Société des Arts in Geneva, and in 2020 became the first winner in the “Classical Music” category of the Trophée K2.
Recently, she has performed with the Avignon-Provence Orchestra under the baton of Debora Waldman, the Brittany Orchestra with Aurélien Azan Zielinski and Anna Duczmal-Mróz, the Garde Républicaine conducted by François Boulanger, and the Opéra de Toulon Orchestra under Lucie Leguay, in concertos from the “great repertoire” (Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Franck, Liszt…) as well as in concertos by Vítězslava Kaprálová and Marie Jaëll. In recital and chamber music, she has been heard at the Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d’Anthéron, L’Esprit du Piano in Bordeaux, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Grand Theatre in Harbin (China), the Salamanca Hall (Japan), Salle Bourgie (Montreal), and Wigmore Hall in London.
A sought-after chamber musician, she performs alongside Renaud Capuçon, Elsa Dreisig, Marie-Laure Garnier, Olivia Gay, the Hanson Quartet, Léa Hennino, Héloïse Luzzati, Raphaëlle Moreau, and Alexandre Pascal.
Her discography, which includes around ten recordings and has received numerous awards, reflects her favorite repertoires: following the album American Touches centered on Bernstein and Gershwin came Metamorphosis featuring works by Glass, Pépin, and Ravel; Songs of Hope with soprano Marie-Laure Gar- nier; and a recording dedicated to Pièces de Dante by Marie Jaëll (Présence Compositrices label). In chamber music, she records with the Hanson Quartet (B Records), Raphaëlle Moreau (Mirare), Olivia Gay (Fuga Libera), and actively contributes to the projects of La Boîte à Pépites (Sohy, Strohl, Leleu…).
An eclectic artist, she is also an actress in the MAB Collec- tif’s projects (Cendrillon, avec ma sœur and Comment je suis devenue Olivia), serves as a hand double in feature films, and appears as a pianist in the series Les Sauvages and Validé (Canal Plus). She also records original soundtracks for various films, documentaries, and series (Les Sauvages on Canal Plus, Rouge by Farid Bentoumi, Le Tourbillon de la vie by Olivier Treiner, Sous la Seine by Xavier Gens, etc.).
After being artist-in-residence at the Opéra Grand Avignon during the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 seasons, she released her latest solo CD Sparklight (NoMadMu- sic) in 2024, featuring concertos (Liszt No. 1 and Jaëll No. 1) with the Orchestre National Avignon-Provence, which was notably featured in Le Figaro, Le Monde, and on France Inter.
Holder of the French teaching diploma (C.A.), she now teaches at the Conservatoire of the 18th arrondissement in Paris and is regularly invited to join the round table on La Tribune des Cri- tiques on France Musique.
Karine Deshayes
Considered as one of the best singers of her generation, three times awarded best “Singer of the year” at the Victoire de la Musique, Karine Deshayes first joined the troupe of the Lyon Opera before to be invited by the more important opera houses. At the Paris Opera she successfully sang Mozart roles (Cherubino, Dorabella, Donna Elvira), Rossini roles (Angelina, Rosina, Elena), but also Poppea (Incoronazione di Poppea), Romeo (I Capuleti e I Montecchi), Charlotte (Werther), Carmen and Urbain (Les Huguenots). She sang the title-roles of Rossini’s Armida (at the Montpellier Opera) and Semiramide (at the Saint-Etienne Opera), Gluck’s Alceste at the Lyon Opera, Elvira (Malibran version of Puritani) at the Festival of Radio France and Montpellier, Marguerite (Damnation de Faust) in Nice Opera and at the Paris Philharmonie.
Outside France, she sang at the Salzburg Festival (Die Zauberflöte under Riccardo Muti), Theâtre de La Monnaie (Marie de l’Incarnation in Dialogues des Carmélites), the Liceu in Barcelona (the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon), the Teatro Real Madrid (Adalgisa in Norma) in San Francisco (La Cenerentola) and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Siébel in Faust, Isolier in Le Comte Ory, Nicklausse/La Muse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann under James Levine and Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette).
More recently she sang Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Chorégies d’Orange, Charlotte (Werther) at the Toulouse Théâtre du Capitole, Adalgisa (Norma) at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Elena (La Donna del Lago) and Balkis (Gounod’s Reine de Saba) at the Marseille Opera, Angelina (Cenerentola) at the Paris Theâtre des Champs Elysées, Liege royal Opera and the Theatro Real Madrid.
She also has a huge success in the title role of Rossini’s Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra at the Pesaro Festival, Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena) at the Zürich Opera and in concert at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Valentine (Les Huguenots) at the Royal Theater of la Monnaie and in the title role of Norma at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Elisabetta (Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra) in Marseille.
Among her future projects, la Comtessa (Nozze di Figaro) at the Toulouse Theatre du Capitole, Médée (Lully’s Thésée) in concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées the Brussels Bozar and at the Theater an der Wien, Adalgisa (Norma) in Hamburg, Valentine (Les Huguenots) at the Marseille Opera.
