Juliette Hurel

Juliette Hurel is recognized as a flautist in both French and international music circles. She was awarded the first prize for flute and chamber music unanimously at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. She also received prizes from competitions in Darmstadt, Kobé, Boekarest, and the Jean-Pierre Rampal concours. In 2004, she was nominated for “Discoveries of the year” at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. Juliette Hurel frequently performs chamber music alongside musicians such as Martha Argerich, Youri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Truls Mork, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin. As a soloist, she has performed with numerous French orchestras, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Hong-Kong Sinfonietta, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, and the BBC Wales orchestra.

Her affinity for contemporary music has led to collaborations with composers including Pierre Boulez, Pascal Dusapin, Philippe Hersant, and Eric Tanguy. Hurel has an extensive discography, featuring collaborations with pianist Hélène Couvert. Notable recordings include “Martinu/Prokoviev” (Lyrinx), a 20th-century French repertoire for Naïve-Valois, and “Haydn Flute Sonatas” (Zig-Zag Territoires). She also recorded C.P.E. Bach’s flute concertos with l’Orchestre d’Auvergne led by Arie van Beek and “Impressions françaises”—works with piano by Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc—both for Zig-Zag Territoires. Her album “Dawn of Romanticism” was released in 2014 for Naïve. Further recordings include Mozart’s complete “Flute Quartets” with the Quatuor Voce (2015, AlphaClassics), “Bach-Inspiration” (2018), and “Compositrices à l’aube du XXème siècle” with Hélène Couvert (2020), both for Alpha Classics. These recordings have garnered positive reviews from the French and international press.

Since 1998, Juliette Hurel has served as the solo flautist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, initially under Valery Gergiev, then Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and since 2018, Lahav Shani. Since 2010, she has been teaching at the Rotterdam Conservatory (Codarts). In 2019, she, Hélène Couvert, and actress Julie Depardieu created a show, ‘Misia, Reine de Paris’, paying tribute to Misia Sert. In 2023, they developed ‘Vive l’amour!’, a musical reading centered on love letters and music. Hurel plays an 18-carat gold Pearl flute and is the artistic director of the ‘Rencontres Musicales de Noyers sur Serein’ and the ‘Musicales du Golfe’.