Juliette Journaux
Piano

Juliette Journaux is a triple graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, after studying at the CRR de Boulogne Billancourt. She leads a double musical life in France and abroad, between the bright lights of a solo career and a behind-the-scenes activity essential to the operatic world: that of vocal coach.

Trained by Marie-Paule Siruguet, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Tatiana Kostrova, David Saudubray and Emmanuel Strosser, she played at Salle Pleyel at the age of 13, at Brigitte Engerer's invitation, for the Chopin bicentenary, then at Hamburg's Laeiszhalle and the Warsaw Philharmonic, where she performed Chopin's First Concerto with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszy.

In love with the lyric voice and the links between music and text, Juliette completed her instrumental training with two Master's degrees specializing in vocal accompaniment and voice direction, with Anne Le Bozec and Erika Guiomar, key figures in her artistic development. She perfected her skills with Christophe Prégardien, Julius Drake, Anne Sofie von Otter, Veronique Gens and Thomas Hampson. With the latter, and with the support of the Académie Orsay-Royaumont, of which she was a prizewinner, she immersed herself in the Lieder of Gustav Mahler, which play an important role in her recital programs, notably at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Musée d'Orsay, the Opéra de Lille and the Abbaye de Royaumont during the 2022-2023 season. A fervent defender of the art of Lied and mélodie in France, she is a privileged stage partner of the new generation of singers, notably baritones Liviu Holender and Edwin Fardini.

As a vocal conductor, she is a regular guest at the Opéra-Comique, the Opéra de Rouen, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the Tiroler Festspiele in Austria, and takes part in opera productions alongside Pierre Dumoussaud, Christophe Rousset, Alexis Kossenko, Raphaël Pichon, Laurence Equilbey, Karsten Janushke, Maxime Pascal and Duncan Ward.

From her very first notes at the age of six, and right up to the present day, Juliette has nurtured a special affinity with Franz Schubert, through solo and chamber music playing, and through listening to his interpreters: Radu Lupu, Gerald Moore, Grigory Sokolov and Christoph Eschenbach.

At the crossroads of her two careers, Juliette enjoys transcribing orchestral music and Lieder, making loud what is usually inaudible, revealing counter-songs, and rediscovering the meaning of the text in the music and of the music in the text.

Juliette's first solo album, Wanderer without words, will be released in September 2023 by Alpha Classics, featuring works by Schubert and previously unreleased transcriptions by Mahler and Wagner.

Projects for the 2023-2024 season include the world premiere recording of music by Viennese composer Oskar C. Posa (1873-1951) with violinist Eva Zavaro and baritone Edwin Fardini, and director Dmitri Tcherniakov's new production of Così fan tutte alongside Christophe Rousset at the Théâtre du Châtelet.

If her face rings a bell, it's probably because you've come across her in the audience of a symphony concert at the Philharmonie de Paris, on the terrace of the Kitsuné café drinking a cappuccino, in the credits of a film as a pianist understudy, or at the Atelier de la Main d'Or in Paris, where she accompanies tomorrow's lyrical talent every week.

Juliette Journaux is a prizewinner of the Safran Foundation, the L'Or du Rhin Foundation, the Meyer Foundation, the Académie Orsay-Royaumont and the FoRTE Ile-de-France grant.