Photo : \u00a9 Pierre Beteille<\/p>\n
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Julien Martineau is one of today\u2019s greatest mandolinists. Passionately committed to promoting awareness of his instrument, he has enriched the mandolin repertoire by commissioning new works from composers and transcribing a number of great scores from the classical repertoire.<\/p>\n
He was only nineteen when he was awarded the Giuseppe Anedda Prize at the 1998 Varazze International Competition in Italy. Invited as a guest soloist at the \u2018Victoires de la musique classique\u2019 he made his debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, with whom he has recorded concertos by Vivaldi and Calace (under the label Na\u00efve). In 2021, Julien was appointed Honorary Director of the world\u2019s largest and most prestigious organization devoted to the mandolin, the Classical Mandolin Society of America. In October 2022, he chaired the jury for the International Mandolin Competition in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
He has performed with, to name but a few, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Ensemble Pygmalion, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Lithuania, the National Orchestra of Belarus; every last one of these concert appearances has enabled him to bring to light not only the virtuosity but also the delicacy of his instrument, as have his concerts with Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Yvan Cassar, Bertrand Chamayou, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Zygel, Genevi\u00e8ve Laurenceau, Thibaut Garcia, Yann Dubost, \u00c9ric Franceries or the singers Roberto Alagna, Natalie Dessay, Sabine Devieilhe, Thomas Hampson, Florian Sempey.<\/p>\n
His new album recorded with the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse (Na\u00efve) has just been released; so has the musical tale by Thierry Huillet and Clara Cernat, La Mandoline de Lviv<\/i> with Julie Depardieu (Privat\/ Gallimard).<\/p>\n
His deep interest in the mandolin finds a continuation in the passion he has developed for the instrument making. Thus, Julien Martineau has been working for several years with Savarez, the world leader in guitar string manufacture, with a view to designing new mandolin strings based on the latest technology and a high level of innovation. Besides, the model of the instrument he plays has been devised for him by one of today\u2019s outstanding stringed instrument makers, the Canadian Brian N. Dean.<\/p>\n
As an artistic director and founder of the Festival de Toulouse Julien Martineau was made a Knight of Arts and Letters (Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres) in 2024. He has also been awarded the D\u00e9odat de S\u00e9verac Prize by the Acad\u00e9mie du Languedoc. Julien Martineau is a professor of mandolin at the Conservatoire de Toulouse, and is a holder both of a master\u2019s degree in musicology from Paris IV-Sorbonne and a diploma in music history from the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique de Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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