Julien Hardy, premier basson solo de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France .À l’occasion du Nouveau Festival Radio France Occitanie dirigé par Michel Orier, nous avons rencontré trois solistes de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, « Philhar » pour les initiés. Le soliste est un artiste d’exception, capable de réaliser un solo, c’est-à-dire une œuvre ou un fragment d’œuvre musicale, vocale ou instrumentale, destinée à un seul exécutant.
20230717 Julien Hardy, premier basson solo Philhar
20230717 Julien Hardy, premier basson solo Philhar
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00:00 Julien Hardy, you are bass player and soloist of Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.
00:06 Tell us how you got this passion for this instrument.
00:11 It's simply the meeting with a teacher.
00:15 I was at school, in high school, and the teacher of the Rhineland Conservatory came to present his instrument in the class.
00:22 I fell in love with this instrument, also because the teacher's personality made me want to play this instrument.
00:29 It's a little-known instrument, but we hear it almost every day,
00:34 in cartoons, in movies, in commercials.
00:39 When we hear it, we can find it funny, melancholic, or even expressive.
00:46 For all these reasons, I fell in love with the bass.
00:49 You are, first of all, the first prize winner of the Paris International Concert.
00:55 You are a soloist since you were 19 years old, and today you are a soloist with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.
01:01 At this level, you live every day with your instrument. Only this one exists.
01:06 It's a passion, we are always at full capacity, we dream about bass, we listen to a lot of music.
01:16 But I think it's very important to do something else.
01:20 I have children, so it's important to have other passions, so that when you are with your instrument, you can give your best.
01:27 But it's certain that when you make music, music in general is a passion, so you are constantly inhabited by it.
01:39 A little musical phrase to finish?
01:43 [Music]