Juliette Hurel

Juliette Hurel is a French flutist. She won first prizes for flute and chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, and won other awards in competitions in Darmstadt, Kobé, and Bucharest, as well as at the Concours de flûte Jean-Pierre-Rampal. She frequently performs chamber music with cellists Gary Hoffman and Jean-Guihen Queyras, violist Yuri Bashmet, violinist Shlomo Mintz, harpist Marielle Normann, pianist Stephen Kovacevich, and the Wanderer Trio. She has also appeared as a concerto soloist with various orchestras across France. Through her specialization in contemporary music, she is associated with Pierre Boulez, Pascal Dusapin, and Éric Tanguy. She has made various recordings for Naïve, Timpani, and Zig-Zag Territoires, often with her longtime accompanist, pianist Hélène Couvert. Hurel teaches flute at the Rotterdam Conservatoire, and is a member of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.