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Chantal juillet
Winning all major Canadian
music competitions by the age of 16, Montr¨¦al-born
violinist Chantal Juillet first came to international
attention when she received First Prize at the
Young Concert Artists Competition (NY), making
successful d¨¦buts in Los Angeles, New York and
Washington DC. Recognised as one of Canada's most
brilliant musicians, she appears frequently with
the world¡¯s most renowned orchestras, including
the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Leipzig Gewandhaus,
the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony,
the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris,
the Filarmonica della Scala, the BBC Symphony
Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony and the Hong Kong
Philharmonic. She has toured Europe, North and
South America with the Montr¨¦al Symphony, Spain
with The Philharmonia, Italy with the Orchestre
National de France and Japan with the NHK Symphony.
Her first recording
for Decca of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto and
the two Szymanowski concerti was released to
outstanding critical acclaim. Subsequent recordings
include an all-Ravel disc, which won the Gramophone
Award for the Best Chamber Music Recording of
1997, the Goldschmidt Rondeau and Violin Concerto
conducted by the composer, the Korngold, Krenek
and Weill violin concerti with the Berlin Rundfunk
Symphony Orchestra, which formed part of Decca's
Entartete Musik (Degenerate Art) project, and
R¨ºverie et Caprice, a collection of French pieces
for violin and orchestra with the Montr¨¦al Symphony
Orchestra. Chantal Juillet also recorded a disc
of chamber music with Martha Argerich for EMI,
which was released in July 1999.
Fervent ambassador
of new music, Chantal Juillet is an active proponent
of premi¨¨re performances, associated with some
of today¡¯s foremost composers. In 1994 she gave
the first public performance of Berthold Goldschmidt's
Violin Concerto at the Festival de Radio France
in Montpellier, with the Orchestre National
de France. After the performance, the composer
dedicated the concerto to her, and subsequently
wrote Rondeau as a gesture of their musical
friendship. Miss Juillet also collaborated with
Krzysztof Penderecki on his 2nd Violin Concerto,
Metamorphoses, premi¨¨ring this significant work
in North America and several European countries
in 1996.
World premi¨¨res include
Andr¨¦ Pr¨¦vost's Violin Concerto (1998), written
for her and the Montr¨¦al Symphony Orchestra
to celebrate the Canada Council¡¯s 40th anniversary,
Richard Danielpour's Violin Concerto (2000)
and Lowell Liebermann's Violin Concerto (2001),
both written for her and the Philadelphia Orchestra,
Denys Bouliane¡¯s Triple Concerto, Tetrapharmakos
(2004), commissioned by the Montr¨¦al Symphony,
as well as numerous chamber music works. In
addition, she gave the North American premi¨¨re
(2003) of James MacMillan's A Deep but Dazzling
Darkness and will shortly record this work for
Chandos.
Since 1991, Chantal
Juillet is Music Director of the Saratoga International
Chamber Music Festival (NY). From 2001 to 2003,
she held the same title at the Pacific Music
Festival in Japan, and since 2005 she combines
the positions of Artistic Associate and Director
of Chamber Music at the Canton International
Summer Music Academy (CISMA), newly founded
by China¡¯s Ministry of Culture and IMG Artists.
Chantal Juillet is
a graduate of Indiana University, where she
studied with the eminent violinist Josef Gingold.
In 2000, she was made
a Chevalier de l¡¯Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
de France, and received, in 2005, the Opus Prize
for ¡¶Personality of the Year¡·from the Conseil
Qu¨¦b¨¦cois de la Musique and was appointed Chevalier
de l¡¯Ordre National du Qu¨¦bec.
As of August 2006,
she was named ¡°Officer of the Order of Canada¡±.
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